Grafton High School uses National Science Week to help get local primary school students interested and keen for science when they start Year 7. Year 10 Select and Gold classes run scientific experiments with the Year 6 students and talk to them about science and general high school life.
Topic: Agriculture
Food: Different by Design at St Johns Preston
Food is an important part of our daily life. As the population grows to 10 billion people by 2050, how will we feed them with sustainable and healthy food? These activities put students in the role of scientists to investigate these issues. in this activity teachers and students will run a number of experiments that…
Food, Different by Design Expo
Our School will be hosting a variety of demonstrations that will cater for our students from Prep through to Year 6. The events will be set up in different locations around the school both indoor and outdoor and they will be Year Level appropriate. The day will be run to a timetable with seven time…
Genetically Modified Foods – DNA by Design
Contemporary practices in agriculture and farming are changing quickly in order to produce food in a sustainable way whilst meeting the demands of the growing population and changing climate. One of the solution ideas involves genetically modified food production, that is enhancing the viability of crops in broader regions. We will use a miniPCR machine…
Lockyer District High School Science Festival
All students at Lockyer District High School will have access to activities each day of National Science Week. With a focus on the theme ‘Food Better By Design’, students can participate in a Science Brain Break lunch; experience the world differently through AR and VR technology; watch winning entries in the SCINEMA International Science Film…
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
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…
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…
St Margaret’s Berwick Grammar Science Market Fair
Students in Y7-9 at St Margaret’s Berwick Grammar will showcase their science fair Food Different by Design projects to other students in our P-12 school, parents and the wider community COVID restrictions permitting. Each year level has been assigned a theme ranging from GM food crops, sustainable foods, composting and nutrient cycling and the water…
National Science Week at Bute Early Learning and Primary School
Students will be immersed in a range of learning experiences linked to the National Science Week theme Food: Different by design. This will include students using virtual reality to explore food production process from around the world. Student will also investigate and sample edible insects as a sustainable, bit currently non-mainstream, food source.