A science fair for all students in the school. Student work will be displayed, as well as a small museum set up from all the biological and geological samples at the school. There will also be a science show demonstration using liquid nitrogen for all students
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You Are What You Eat!
Students will participate in a number of lunchtime activities over National Science Week related to the theme of food and sustainability. Events include: Cooking with and tasting products made from farmed insects Meat free BBQ Taste testing – can you really tell the difference? Exploding water melon
Centenary State High School Rocket Launch
Let’s kick off National Science Week with a bang – come and launch rockets fuelled with food. We will investigate the famous soda & Mentos reaction. Who can get the highest explosion? Does it make a difference what soda you use? Can you enhance your rocket to make it fly further?
Family Food
While discussing and furthering our knowledge of where food comes from, students and their families will be asked to share their favourite family recipes with each other. This will promote inclusion, healthy eating, discuss culture and allow everyone to share something special with the school community. Families will be encouraged to share stories about why…
Lego Legends Competition
Students will work in teams to design and build a Lego model that celebrates the unique wonders of Cairns and Far North Queensland. Their models will be judged on functionality, aesthetics, and creativity.
Farmer Wants a Slice!
The STEM process will need to start prior to the Farmer Wants a Slice Day which will be held during National Science Week. Due to COVID import restrictions, the school canteen is unable to buy/sell its most popular items: Potato Gem Slice Ice Cream slice Sunflower Slice Cinnamon Slice How can we help the canteen…
National Science Week at Lanyon High
Lanyon science teachers run activities during the breaks that are aimed at all 7 to 10 students involving activities that are not normally run in the classroom. One teacher will borrow Makey Makey equipment for a day and run activities around coding. Another teacher uses dry ice for a number of activities including; Dry ice…
Justice for the Oceans
How can we make a Blue New Deal? Healthy oceans are fundamental to a healthy planet. From phytoplankton, the tiny ocean plants that produce the oxygen we breathe, to the rich diversity of other ocean plants and creatures, we depend on our oceans to survive and thrive. But our oceans are both under threat and pose a threat. Pollution, overfishing and the destruction of coral reefs are killing them from…
Space Weather and the Path to Mars
2021 EINSTEIN LECTURE Activity on the Sun’s surface creates a type of climate called ‘space weather’. It takes the form of solar flares, coronal mass ejections and bursts of radiation that travel far and wide across the Solar System and beyond. Space weather reaches Earth too – causing satellite disruption, electrical blackouts and the beautiful…
Future Medicine
Necessity is the mother of invention. The supersonic development of several highly-effective COVID-19 vaccines has shown what can be achieved. So why, despite today’s researchers, clinicians and innovators having so many powerful tools at their disposal, do so many promising breakthroughs take so long to reach the doctors’ consulting rooms? From the tangible impact of…