Ch ch ch changes…. Join the Museum for a night of transformation, think caterpillar into butterfly, grapes into wine and bugs into food in an evening of creepy, crawly, spiky, slimy bugtastic and fabulouse fun. Confront your fears and phobias, challenge yourself to try something new and learn about the secret and not-so-secret lives of…
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SMART Science Show
Tune in from the classroom or at home, for a fun-filled, food focused science show, celebrating National Science Week. Watch science presenters from the University of Newcastle’s SMART Program as they explore states of matter! The team will investigate solids, liquids and gases, and explore what happens when we heat them up, combine them, or cool them…
The Polar Pod Expedition
Polar Pod, a crewed oceanographic platform, will flip onto its side and drift around Antarctica to research the Southern Ocean. French explorer and environmentalist Jean-Louis Etienne has spent the last 10 years designing this scientific vessel capable of braving the terrifying waves and winds found there. WA will be engaged in this expedition through the…
Postponed: Thought for Food Café
We regret to advise that due to current covid restrictions, this event has been postponed. Eat, drink and feed your mind at the Thought for Food Café during an entertaining evening of discussion and debate about humans and our relationship with food. FedUni researchers will explore the myths, the science and the tricks that influence…
What’s in Your Lunch?
Year 12 Investigating Science students who are attending school will be holding a food testing stall during Science Week. Executive and Science staff will have some of their lunch tested to see if it contains: oils; starch; sugar; protein; or vitamin C Video footage of the tests will then be included in the National Science…
Women in STEM – schools
Join one of WA’s notable women in STEM, former Chief Scientist Professor Lyn Beazley AO, as she facilitates a panel of the WA Museum’s most distinguished women in science to discuss their scientific passion, what makes them tick, and how they entered the field. Budding scientists will be able to meet these STEM practitioners, be…
Space School for Kids
Join one of our highly experienced astronomers where you will learn all about the stars and make a constellation. You will then head into the Planetarium for an interactive session where you can marvel at the immense scale of the Universe and observe the breath-taking beauty of the night skies projected on the eight-metre domed…
Broadwater Public School STEM Day
The week will involve the students accessing online activities. They will think analytically and problem solve different STEM activities based on food problems.
Sustainable Food
We are going to implement a focus on agriculture and sustainable food futures as part of the new K-6 Science syllabus through an agriculture day where students can interact with food and agriculture to develop sustainable solutions through STEM based activities. Students will be involved in a range of activities that will be rotated throughout…
Postponed: Life in Our Cemeteries Mini Bioblitz
Postponed due to the COVID lockdown. This is the first of a series of mini-Bioblitzes which will visit each cemetery in Bega Valley Shire over the next 3 years. This is a community event where we will explore and record all the creatures and plants in and around the cemetery on the iNaturalist app ….