Topic: Environment and Nature

Amazing Science Fair

During National Science Week, Buderim Kindergarten will hold the Amazing Science Fair, where we will invite the children’s families in to join them in a range of exciting science experiments. We will transform the classroom into different areas including: Microscope Station  where the children will go on a nature treasure hunt in the garden to…

The Young Scientist Research Prizes

To foster and recognise excellence in Victoria’s early career scientists, the Royal Society of Victoria offers four, prestigious, competitive prizes, open to Victorian students in their final year of doctoral candidature, in all areas of the Biomedical & Health Sciences, Biological Sciences (non-human), Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences. Following assessment of applications across the four…

Mini Science Fair

During National Science Week our teachers will create a Mini Science Fair for each of our three kindergarten groups within their session times. Students will dress up as mini scientists and participate in a range of fun, hands-on activities and experiments that engage young learners in the wonderment of the world around them. The children…

Whole school Science week

Each year level in our P-12 school will be involved in a science activity during science week in 2022. Each level will access activities targeting their developmental stage. The activities will include materials science and environmental science. They will include

Goodness Festival: Sustainable Living Expo

The Goodness Festival is pleased to partner with Midwest Carbon Zero is coordinating and hosting the inaugural Sustainable Living Expo. A variety of stalls, workshops, panels, guest speakers, and interactive displays will demonstrate to the public the various ways their environmental impact can be reduced. Energy, waste management, transport, food and agriculture, biodiversity and conservation…

Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern

What can Aboriginal astronomy tell us about the night sky? How is our native flora used in bush medicine? How do Indigenous Australians make axes from stone? What can we learn about sustainable living from 60,000+ years of Indigenous culture? Find out the answers to these questions and more at the Indigenous Science Experience. This…

SOUND & VISION: Sci-Art on Ocean & Ice

Don’t miss these free online sci-art experiences to dive, sketch, explore, quiz, and Q&A with our expert presenters pondering the sounds and visions of our oceans. The Sound of Colour Join NASA Oceanographer Ryan Vandermeulen for this one hour presentation with quiz and Q&A. Scientific data analysis is often exclusively visual components, and this is…

Year 4 Science Expo

During science week year four students from our school will be presenting different science experiments to the school.  They will be performing the experiment and explaining the science behind it.  Each group will present their science to the lower school on one day and then to the rest of the school another day.

Glass – More than Meets the Eye: An Aboriginal Perspective

Christian Aboriginal Parent-Direct School (CAPS) Coolgardie will look at the history of glass and how it has influenced advancements in technology and some of its industrial applications today. We will explore how it may be utilized in future technologies. The project will be a whole school approach where the other departments will prepare their own…