The unique Mindflight7 virtual reality learning method activates and excites secondary students with relevant career direction and subject specific educational experiences delivered using immersive VR technology. Flight options are: space mission, frog dissection, heart surgery, ocean acidification, global warming, ecosphere tours, science career immersions.
Topic: Chemistry and Materials
Jollybops Mix it Up Science Show
A high humored, high energy fully interactive show for kids big and small. It’s Chemistry at its best with explosive gases, combusting powders and metals, freezing liquids, colour changing reactions, and slimey gooey polymer worms. Who knows what will happen when Rusty the Robot and the Jolly Professor explore the chemical and material world? A…
Cottesloe Primary Science Week Maker Space
Over the week, students are set challenges where they will need to design and innovative solution. At the end of the week students will select one of their ideas to create in a Maker Space session. Students will be interviewed about their creations and this will be shared in a National Science Week Assembly.
Goodstart Narangba Science Activities
During National Science Week our educators will be conducting various science sessions, across all age groups within our centre. The resources we have gathered are My First Science Book, water cycle puzzle, My First Weight Scale, play and explore fossils set, and a mini beast super life cycle set. These resources can be used in…
Junior Lab – weigh it, stack it, magnetise it!
Calling all scientists. Join us at Junior Lab for a fun and interactive time to explore, experiment, and learn about different scientific principles – weights, light and reflections, and magnets. Children aged 1-5 years old. Please include all children ages and any guardian / educators attending in the notes when booking your free tickets. This…
Author Talk – Dr Jake M Robinson: Invisible friends, how microbes shape our lives and the world around us
Join ecologist and researcher Dr Jake M Robinson for a special National Science Week author talk about his debut popular science book, Invisible Friends. As we continue to live through a pandemic, all eyes are on microbes: an imperceptible and pervasive threat that hangs heavy on the air and clings to surfaces. But the reality of…
STEM Bags
This National Science Week, the ANU are offering STEM Bags full of free educational resources designed to provide hands-on learning experiences for children with each bag containing a range of 15+ activities, experiments, and materials related to different STEM fields. The bags are suitable for preschool through to high-school-aged children and would suit families and…
Science in the Pub: Looking at the small things with big impact
Ever wondered what interesting things happen in the iconic Ecosciences Precinct in Dutton Park? Come and join us for a Pint of Science to celebrate National Science Week, and listen to just three of the many scientists from government agencies based at the Ecosciences Precinct at Dutton Park: CSIRO, the Department of Environment and Science,…
Science Trivia
How much science and general trivia do you have in your head? A little or a lot, doesn’t matter just make sure you’re part of Science Trivia as part of celebrating National Science Week @ ESP. Form your own team, or join someone else’s on the day, but you’ve got to be in it to win it. …
Science Showcase UOW: Open day at Wollongong Campus
The open day at Wollongong campus for Science Showcase UOW is on Saturday 5 August from 10am – 3pm. The STEM zone around around “Sciences Lane” will be buzzing with all sorts of science, including guided tours of different science teaching laboratories and research spaces Fire & Ice Spectacular Science Shows, presented by the Science Space…