Leeville Public School will be enjoying a Science Fair Spectacular which will involve a day visit to a local working farm on Wednesay 18 August where the children will get to enjoy a wide range of animals – goats, ducks, horses, cows, chickens, geese and donkeys. They will participate in a range of Science learning…
Topic: Agriculture
Diversity in STEMM gallery
That’s What I Call Science is a national award-winning radio show and podcast that celebrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM) in Tasmania. For National Science Week, the all-women team is creating an online gallery that showcases and celebrates underrepresented people working in STEMM in our island state. The immersive gallery will use light…
Henbury School Science Fair
Henbury School Science Fair is a hands-on science day for students and our wider community. The event will be held at Henbury School on Thursday 19 August. Most of our activities are based around the National Science Week school theme Food: Different by Design. This year’s activities include: Fruit Ripeness/Farm Product tracker – Anna Day…
Science Week at Mountain Heights High School
We will be getting students involved in a project on the theme of food.
The Big Watermelon Experiment 2 – More Melons, More Data (and more mess)
How many rubber bands does it take to implode a watermelon? The Big Watermelon Experiment sought to answer that very odd question in a mass science experiment for school students. But we need more data, so we are going around (the watermelons) again. Schools register for free and will receive learning materials (videos and downloads) in the…
The STEAM Room: A Science Comedy Experience
Praxical & Stand-Out Comedy will present The STEAM Room, a science, tech, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM) themed comedy night at Sydney’s Giant Dwarf Theatre. The event will highlight leading Australian research through a diverse range of comedians and emerging STEM communicators. Partnering with established comedy room, Stand-Out Comedy, this event will bring together scientists, performers and you…
Something from Nothing – School workshops
Children at the Hopetoun Primary School will learn how to grow produce from food scraps. A session will be held for each class at the school at the Hopetoun Community Resource Centre, so children learn about what you need to start growing something from nothing. We hope to encourage enthusiasm amongst children in home grown…
Food For Thought – Patch
Dan Paris from Mystwood Harvest will run a free two hour workshop on the operation of their farm. This small family owned farm in Esperance Western Australia, uses Regenerative Agriculture techniques to grow and share vegetables with their local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members. Participants attending the workshop will learn about regenerative techniques to be able to grow…
The Future of Food
Food is essential for life, but the global systems we rely on to feed us have become increasingly complex and industrialised. Sometimes it’s hard to know where our food comes from, what’s in it and how healthy or ethically produced it is. Paradoxically, as a global community we face major challenges based on both too…
The Poetry of Science
Would you like to have a bit of fun with the chance to win a prize? Then this is the competition for you! Express a scientific idea/concept through poetry and fill out the form below to enter The Poetry of Science: a science-themed poetry writing competition open to all people in Tasmania for National Science…