The West Australian for Deaf Children’s Meet The Scientists – Sign Me up! Auslan interpreted event aims to engage deaf and hard of hearing children aged 6 – 12 years and their siblings and peers with science, providing them with exposure to science as a career pathway, building confidence in scientific concepts and inspiring them through…
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13th Canberra Cub Scout Group Science Celebration
The 13th Canberra Cub Scout Group will get the jump on National Science Week and spend the evening solving problems of the science kind.
STEM Alive for Kids
The Peter Underwood Centre is delivering 5 STEM based broadcasts during National Science Week. The broadcasts are tailored to suit children from Years 3 through to 6 however children and adults of all ages will find things of interest in these presentations. Broadcasts will be via Zoom Webinar. As a precaution and ensuring a safe,…
Did you know? Community Talk – Reducing Food Waste
Dr Polly Burey, Senior Lecturer (Food Science) at the University of Southern Queensland, will share her tips and experience on how to get the most out of your household food budget. She has practical ideas on how to create less food waste and also, how to make the most of any food scraps and vegetables…
How to Fix a Pixie: art meets science in hospital
This project focuses on 14 Pixie O’Harris paintings from The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s art collection in need of conservation and restoration. Each painting ‘becomes the patient’ and undergoes examination, diagnosis and treatment. The art conservator will demonstrate how to make swabs, remove varnish layers and ‘operate’ to replace paint losses in a simulated environment….
Diego’s Foraging Guide
Learn all about wild edible plants growing in your backyard. In this 15 minute video, foraging expert Diego Bonetto demonstrates how to identify some of the common edible plants that grow in backyards and parks in the local Liverpool area, and explains some of their uses. Diego Bonetto is an artist, forager and wild food…
CURATOR TALK: The Larapintine Sea and Australia’s oldest ‘Megafauna’
Join Dr Adam Yates, MAGNT Senior Curator of Earth Sciences, as he discusses the Larapintine Sea and Australia’s oldest ‘Megafauna’. Dr Yates will talk about fossils of marine animals from the Ordovician period, approximately 450 million years ago when a warm shallow sea stretched across southern NT. You will get the chance to see fossils…
Deep Dive into Australia’s Ocean Odyssey
Deep Dive into Australia’s Ocean Odyssey is a 3 x 20-minute ocean education series on ABC ME and iview on 17 and 19 August during National Science Week. Focusing on Marine Life, Interconnectedness of Land and Sea, and Ocean Protection and Restoration the series is hosted by Rad Yeo and combines segments from ABC TV’s…
Green Team Presents – The Science Quiz
Grab your lab coat, mad scientist outfit and a beaker of your favourite drink and get ready for the Green Team National Science Week Quiz: Featuring four sections: Living Science Earth Science Prehistoric Science Adults Only Science
Explore and Learn at Home
Sign up for a free National Science Week activity pack for ages 5 to 10 and join us for Explore and Learn at Home as we work through six different activities during the week. Videos will be posted to Facebook for each activity so you can follow along easily.