We sometimes forget that it’s not all about us. Humans make up a fraction of life on Earth yet our decisions impact everything. What if we gave trees a say in things? We’d have to get to know trees better. Scientists are doing just that to answer questions about climate, food and cities. Join us…
Topic: Agriculture
Beaker Street Festival
Imagine a place where scientists grace centre stage, microscopes live on bar tables, and late-night conversations have the potential to change the world. Welcome to Beaker Street Festival, where science brings us together. Beaker Street Festival is a week-long celebration of science in lutruwita/Tasmania each August. Now in its eighth year, Beaker Street Festival promises a…
Festival of Bright Ideas – Schools Day
Schools’ Day The Festival of Bright Ideas (FOBI) sparks curious and creative minds to learn more about science and the world around them. Focusing on innovative and inspiring aspects of STEM (science, engineering, technology, and mathematics), it provides an educational, aspirational, and family-friendly experience for Tasmanians. As Tasmania’s premier National Science Week event since 2015,…
Festival of Bright Ideas
The Festival of Bright Ideas (FOBI) sparks curious and creative minds to learn more about science and the world around them. Focusing on innovative and inspiring aspects of STEM (science, engineering, technology, and mathematics), it provides an educational, aspirational, and family-friendly experience for Tasmanians. As Tasmania’s premier National Science Week event since 2015, you can…
National Science Week
National Science Week at Windaroo Primary will be a whole school and community event. Each class will visit for one hour and engage in a large number of interactive activities based on sustainability and habitats. Our focus will be on healthy habitats and solutions for how humans and animals can co-exist. We will simultaneously run…
Learning about survival
We are a Preschool, and part of our goal is to ignite a passion about all things science. About thinking, curiosity, observation, experimentation and hypothesising. Our event will extend over a period of 2 weeks. We will, in as many ways as possible, include questioning and discussion about the survival of our species. We will…
Fantastic Fungi
Through this Science Week project, the Pre-K – Year 6 students at Trinity Prep School will step into the shoes of a mycologists, inquiring into the form, change, and connection of mushrooms. Mushrooms play a vital role in nature’s balance, through their ability to recycling nutrients, essential for the survival of many species. Through this…
Eco-Garden
The students at Maria Regina will be reinvigorating our eco-garden to be able to grow health veggies and herbs that can be used by the students in our school canteen. Students will learn about ecosystems, caring for living things and healthy diets. Students from Kinder to Year 6 will participate in gardening events throughout the…
By Gum: Healing Country
A day field trip to three spectacular Tasmanian East Coast properties. Showcasing positive stories of landscape recovery, saving threatened species, covenants and giving back to Aboriginal custodians. Meet researchers, land managers, scientists and volunteers. Includes practical planting at Wind Song. Presenters include: Dr Magali Wright Dr Bec Jones Jimmy Collinson Linton Burgess – Aboriginal cultural…
Warrnambool East Primary School Science Fair
Our school holds a Science Fair that is open to the wider school community. All of our students are invited to create a project either individually, as a family or with friends. The students bring these to school on Wednesday the 14 August. The focus of our fair is not to create “the best” project,…