Native Bee Workshop

Discover our awesome native bees during National Science Week. Learn about their vital contribution to natural ecosystems, how you can contribute to their survival and how to make bee homes to put in your garden. For children and adults.

Science Day at Charthouse Primary School

On Science Friday, groups of Year 5 and 6 students will set up a presentation table, and present their investigations to all the students in the school and to their parents. Students are encouraged to present their findings in an interesting way, which may involve hands-on investigations, presentations and demonstrations, including virtual demonstrations. This is an opportunity for…

Prehistoric Picnic

It’s been a while – 65 million years, actually – since the land echoed with the footsteps of dinosaurs. Now, thanks to Erth, Sydney’s world-famous dinorecreationists, these majestic creatures will once again walk amongst us. The picturesque lawns of the Museum and Art Gallery of NT are the perfect picnic ground for a prehistoric pack…

Glass from Nature

The Gardens presents an exhibition and display of natural forms of glass, curated by lapidarist and Gardens volunteer, Gillian Stewart. Although most people think of glass as being an artificially made material, it is also found the natural world. Meteorite impacts melt silica in Earth’s crust that rains down as glassy pebbles called tektites. Lava,…

Sea Country Stories – Launch Event

Join us at the South Australia Maritime Museum for the launch of the first ever Sea Country Stories from Ngarrindjeri Country on the lower Murray River and Coorong.  An immersive experience of being on Yarlawa Ruwi, Sea Country with cultural icon and Ngarrindjeri elder Major ‘Moogy’ Sumner as he demonstrates how to make the kaiki, the freshwater reed spears, harvested…

Crazy Kaleidoscope Craft

In this hands-on craft class will will make crazy patterns with hand-made kaleidoscopes. Using beads and found natural objects, children will construct and decorate their own kaleidoscopes and learn how reflection and light work.

Bottlenecked: Recycling bottles into local roads

Fiona Schreures, Resource Recovery Projects Coordinator from Shoalhaven City Council had a dilemma. What do you do with a 10,000 tonne mountain of stockpiled, dirty contaminated glass waste (fines) that no none wants to recycle and you don’t want to landfill? Wash it of course! Shoalhaven City Council developed a solution to clean and recycle…