We are opening our college to the school community on 19 August. We are starting the day with our senior students, they have been invited to a breakfast with professionals in our community that work in the field of science and food. The breakfast will be held in the Trade Training Centre cooked and served…
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Carnaby Rise Primary School’s Science Celebration Day
Carnaby Rise Primary School’s Science Celebration Day includes rotational activities between classes across the entire school. Our Super Science Day will run for one whole school day, with each student rotating through 4 one-hour activities, moving through 4 classrooms, with each teacher in the school teaching one engaging, hands-on science lesson each, every hour, at…
Sphero Challenge
Students from across the school will be coming together to take part in a robotics challenge event.
Trust me, I’m a Scientist: COVID-19 and public attitudes to biomedical science
Trust underpins relationships between people and their views on institutions. Trust is critical for a healthy, functioning society. It is the glue that allows people and institutions to share and collaborate and to advance human progress. Surveys and polls on the issue of trust indicate that Australians place a high level of trust in science…
Food: A practical experience
Students will explore recess and lunchtime activities over the course of National Science Week. They will: build pollen traps undergo flower dissections understand thermodynamics by designing a vertical wall or roof top garden burn food to find energy content investigate aquaculture undergo a sensory food journey
Abiotic Factors and Plant Growth
Students will investigate abiotic factors that affect plant growth. Using the watering stand using block-based coding on a Microbit to monitor soil moisture levels. Environment and Sustainability students will create posters for display and present to a whole school assembly. In National Science Week the hands-on activity is where students will use alphabet templates to…
SHPSH Bee Friendly Project
Students will learn about the importance of bees and food production. They will design and make bee homes and bee baths to encourage bees into the garden. Students will research plants that attract and enable bees to thrive in our school’s dedicated garden terrace and plan to improve this garden area by planting more pollinator…
The Future of Foods, From the Ground Up
Activities will explore the future opportunities in food science and STEM. The environmental impact of food production systems and how the food we grow or harvest can impact climate change. Highlighting site appropriate agriculture, students will follow an existing bush food trail through our school grounds and adjacent parklands guided by our local Indigenous elders….
Redeemer Lutheran School Sustainability Fair
Our Sustainability Fair will be held during National Science Week to share the sustainability projects that our students have been working on throughout the year. The students will be sharing their learning, the products they have created and the action they have taken. Such activities include: design of gardens based on principles of permaculture; planting…
Eastlakes Public School Science Fair
The Eastlakes Public School Science Fair will showcase science and technology across all years K-6. Students, teachers, parents and community members will have the opportunity to participate in experiments, share learning and challenge their thinking with creative and critical thinking challenges.