Experience artistic and visionary alternative futures in a science themed world first. Five iconic Australian landmarks transform each sunset in August as illuminart‘s vibrant regional projections blaze to life simultaneously in a connected trail of spectacular Stories in Light. Collaborating with talented regional artists and animators, illuminart’s brand new animated stories combine local knowledge, ideas…
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Wallaroo Silo Constellation – A trail of stories in light across regional SA
Experience artistic and visionary alternative futures in a science themed world first! Five iconic Australian landmarks transform each sunset in August as illuminart’s vibrant regional projections blaze to life simultaneously in a connected trail of spectacular Stories in Light. Collaborating with talented regional artists and animators, illuminart’s brand new animated stories combine local knowledge, ideas…
Port Pirie Constellation – A trail of stories in light across regional SA
Experience artistic and visionary alternative futures in a science themed world first. Witness the transformation of five iconic Australian landmarks each sunset in August as illuminart’s vibrant regional projections blaze to life simultaneously in a connected trail of spectacular Stories in Light. In collaboration with talented regional artists and animators, illuminart’s brand new animated stories…
Karoonda Constellation – A trail of stories in light across regional SA
Experience artistic and visionary alternative futures in a science themed world first. Five iconic Australian landmarks transform each sunset in August as illuminart’s vibrant regional projections blaze to life simultaneously in a connected trail of spectacular Stories in Light. Collaborating with talented regional artists and animators, illuminart’s brand new animated stories combine local knowledge, ideas…
Through the looking glass mystery boxes
“Through the looking glass” mystery boxes National Science Week provides an opportunity as a stimulus to provide examples of how you can engage students with relevant and meaningful activities while supporting teachers by building their capacity to understand how to develop links across curriculum areas. A kit will be produced for Year level bands to access during National Science Week. The…
The Science of Soap
Participants will get to make soap while learning about chemical reactions and processes such as exothermic reactions and saponification. The session will be jointly run by a soap making expert and science teacher who can talk through scientific processes as we go. All participants will make some soap which they will be able to take…
The National STEM Communicators Challenge: Hidden Mathematics at Work
To celebrate National Science Week, the Mathematical Sciences Institute at the Australian National University is proud to present The National STEM Communicators Challenge: Hidden Mathematics at Work. This initiative aims to draw attention to the secret role of mathematics in almost everything we do and develop the next generation of science communicators. The activity has two parts: The…
Science Week at Southern Cross Catholic College
In line with the National Science Week theme of Glass: More than meets the eye, at lunchtimes the secondary school students will make jelly optic fibres, light bulbs, and poster competition on glass: more than meets the eye. There will be opportunities for students to use glass prisms to spilt sunlight. The College has four…
Science at State Library Victoria
From preserving and restoring rare books and artefacts to discussing and dissecting science books within the Library’s vast collection, we’re giving you a peek behind the scenes at State Library Victoria during National Science Week. Join us for a panel discussion with three extraordinary women at the Library whose day-to-day work caring for the collection…
Mad Food Science Experiments
The Mad Food Science Workshop is a fun, interactive educational workshop that uses quirky experiments to get children to understand key health messages. Experiments: Making a green smoothie Showing how food colouring disperses differently in different size and shape cups Sugar experiment showing amount of sugar in popular drinks How gut bacteria feed on different…