The Sydney Basin Koala Network (SBKN) has been established by the Total Environment Centre and WIRES to create a collaborative and supportive network for koala advocates across the region. Our overarching aim is to protect and expand connected, thriving Koala core habitats and corridors across the Sydney Basin. Whether you live in the Hawkesbury or…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Innovation Fueled Lunch Breaks
This year for National Science Week our senior students and staff will run engaging and age-appropriate innovative STEM activities with our R-9 students across two 45-minute lunch breaks. Stations will be set up in our biology lab and will showcase current innovation in the areas of, alternative energy and fuel cells, food sources, connecting our…
Scientist in Residence – Cleaning up our waterways
During Term 1 and 2, our Kindy students have been learning about the problems caused by polluted water, especially regarding the impact that it has on animals in the water, such as turtles and fish. They have been very interested in activities that allow them to clean up dirty or contaminated water sources. These activities have included…
Crystal-A-Con
Everyone loves crystals. From snowflakes to diamonds to sugar, we see crystals everyday and we love them for being beautiful, shiny and symmetrical. Crystals are extra special to scientists because they are made up of repeating patterns of atoms and molecules. These patterns allow scientists to use a special technique called ‘crystallography’ to work out…
Jingili Science Expo and Science Fair Extravaganza
Jingili’s Annual Science Expo, 2 August Jingili Primary School hosts the annual Science Expo where ‘Real Life Scientist’ come to our school to provoke thinking and connect our students to how science work. The aim of this event is to engage the children, from preschool to year six, with a variety of science concepts and…
Science Expo and Science Fair Extravaganza
Jingili’s Annual Science Expo (2nd August, 2023) Jingili Primary School hosts the annual Science Expo where ‘Real Life Scientist’ come to our school to provoke thinking and connect our students to how science work. The aim of this event is to engage the children, from preschool to year six, with a variety of science concepts…
Seville Primary School Experiment Expo
Students will research, then choose their favourite fun experiment to test, then showcase to our junior students and families. The offered experiments may include (but choices will be student led with a focus safety) colour experiments such as marbling with milk and food dyes/ melting Smarties in milk, capillary action colour moving. Water/oil experiments such…
NOCTURNA Dark Sky Retreat
Welcome to NOCTURNA, a celebration of the fragile beauty of the cosmos — embracing our long winter nights and taking the time to gaze at our still-pristine dark skies, a precious natural resource that is under threat from light pollution. The increasingly widespread use of artificial light outdoors not only impairs our view of the…
Dog Mob Cat Crew
AMRRIC’s education program, Dog Mob Cat Crew, will run a school education project at a remote Indigenous schools in the Northern Territory during National Science week, through data capture and monitoring, that lead to improved One Health (animal, human, and environmental health) outcomes for remote communities in Australia. The school-based program will deliver education sessions that demonstrate the…
Arludo’s National Game Design Challenge
Help your students design and submit an idea for Arludo’s next big science game. National winners will receive 3 months of mentoring while watching their game come to life. Arludo’s National Game Design Challenge will teach students in Years 3-6 how to design a video game, including how to pick a scientific topic or question,…