“How does a cow turn into a sausage?”; “Why is it ok to eat cows but not whales?; “Can I send my sandwich to a child who’s really hungry?”. As part of National Science Week, our webinar panel will discuss how children’s critical questions can be addressed in an honest and age-appropriate way that encourages…
Topic: Chemistry and Materials
STEM Hour: Connect, learn, grow – Exploring Bush Tucker
What comes to mind when we think about Australian cuisine? There are few things more Aussie than meat pies and the good old barbie. In our July webinar, we will celebrate food that has been here for thousands of years, much longer than the sausage sizzle: Bush Tucker. Join us on a journey back in…
Science Night At The Museum
Science Night at the Museum is a science fair run at the Museum of the Goldfields each year over National Science Week. The event showcases what mining companies, the council and other organisations in the region are doing. The objective of this program is to encourage an interest in science among the public and encourage…
Tasty Atoms
Events throughout the week with junior and upper primary classes held during science lessons and a shared learning time from 9.00 – 9.40 am daily. Activities include: extending chemical sciences into fantastic food designs building chemical molecules using fruit pieces for healthy fruit snack experimenting with changes in state – demonstrating changes with heating and…
St Leonards Primary Science Week
Whole school hands-on Science Fair in the school assembly hall, rotating Prep to Year 6 through investigative and hands on work stations in a central location. Food and science of food will be the focus with the idea to activate science inquiry skills of questioning, predicting, conducting, processing and evaluation. This includes an open invitation…
Children’s Storytelling Online Workshop with Aussie STEM Stars
Celebrate National Science Week with authors from the exciting new book series Aussie STEM stars. Join award-winning authors Claire Saxby and Emily Gale as they showcase the book series and describe what it’s like writing the biographies of STEM superstars. The STEM stars themselves will then challenge you with a range of exciting STEM-based activities…
Deceptology with Nicholas J Johnson at State Library Victoria
To celebrate National Science Week, magician Nicholas J Johnson (aka the Honest Conman) will be performing his incredible show Deceptology. Deceptology combines magic with science, providing an introduction to the extraordinary psychological and neuroscientific principles that make illusions possible. Students will have their brains ‘hacked’ by change blindness, gestalt pattern perception, the motion aftereffect, faulty…
Dalman’s No Waste Urban Garden (D.U.G) Pickle and Preserve for the future festival
The festival will run through National Science Week and will involve students from Kindergarten to Year 6, and parents. We will run rotations of engaging, hands-on pickling/ preserving lesson as well as cooking using the food collected from the D.U.G. Students will learn the no waste sustainability cycle of growing the item – cooking –…
Kilcoy State School Science Fair
Kilcoy State School are excited to whet our appetites with 2021’s National Science Week theme of Food: Different by Design. From Prep to Year 6, all classes will showcase their amazing work by creating Science Stations with visual displays linked to hands-on activities and technology of their chosen Science unit topic or STEM passion. This…
Korumburra Secondary College Science Week Activities
Day 1 National Science Week at the school gets off to a great start with the Food and Fibre School Industry Partnership Program providing a free excursion to ElliBank research centre at Warragul to run some STEM based activity stations with Year 7. Soil scientist Doug Crawford joins us for a one-hour session with Year…