A showcase of the STEM inquiry project work being explored in Year 1 to 6 STEM, Sustainability and Media Arts specialist classes and in classrooms. This all-day exhibition will enable students to learn about exciting projects occurring throughout the school, and is opening up to parents and the school community in the afternoon. Examples of…
Topic: Energy and Transport
Wollongong University’s Design a T-shirt Competition
The University of Wollongong is delighted to announce that entries for the Design a T-shirt Competition are open. The competition is for children in Years 3-8 (Stages 2, 3 & 4) to help celebrate the National Science Week theme of Innovation: Powering Future Industries. The theme incorporates the advancement in technology in all industries, especially…
Science Time with Dr Peter Eastwell
Dr Eastwell will present a series of interactive shows, workshops and demonstrations over two days at Innisfail State School campus for students from Prep to Year 6. Air: Invisible yet so Effective Believe it or Not? Combustion: Some Burning Questions Electricity: A Shocking Experience Lightning: So Frightening Science: The Thrill of Discovery, Day With a…
Dr Karl and Friends: Innovation and Beyond
There’s a buzz this National Science Week as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and friends join forces, live on stage at Sydney Town Hall. Take a ride with Dr Karl through the past 100 years of the greatest scientific discoveries and innovations that changed our lives forever. Today’s thinkers will do the same, but how? Dr Karl…
Crescent Lagoon SS Science Fair
Our Crescent Lagoon Science Fair will be set up in school hall for students to visit during the day and families in the afternoon/evening. Students from upper grades will be supporting teachers in demonstrating a range of scientific activities and supporting the younger students in completing tasks. The activities will include: water bottle rockets friction…
Hands-on Science at Harrison School
The science team at Harrison will be conducting break time activities in the VAST building at the school. Students from P-10 can register for the activity of their choice and celebrate science.
Minute to Win it
Students at Lota State school from Prep to Year 6 will take part in 4 science-based games. Chop Stick Pick-up materials science How many blocks can you move from 1 cup to the other using only the chopsticks in 1 minute. Dice Stack structures Can you hold an ice cream stick in your teeth and…
Majura primary School Science Week Celebration
This week each class will participate in a science activity. There will be three sub divisions of junior/middle/upper primary. The activities will be fun and engaging and stimulating scientific thought and discussions and hopefully inspire. Activities will be devised and packs constructed to minimise teacher effort and produce activities that focus on fun and discussion….
Margaret Hendry School Innovation Challenge
Students will take part in one of three innovation challenges where they need to change something to make it the best possible: Twine Train Trouble You are in charge of a straw train, travelling over a piece of string/twine. It needs to travel 3m horizontally. How can you innovate your train to make it move…
Healthy Forests = Healthy Us Family Activity Day
What do trees have to do with the physical and mental health of humans? Come together to celebrate forest and human health, experience and learn about ways of how healing country heals ourselves, and vice versa. Details and online registration for workshops to be announced. Sunshine Coast organisations will bring the intersecting sciences of human…