The Science Fair Extravaganza in National Science Week is a day for the students to become the Science Experts. Throughout the Science Fair, students will showcase science investigations with our early childhood students and parent community. The outdoor learning area is set up to accommodate science stations where students are scientists; in action, conducting experiments…
Topic: Environment and Nature
St. John Fisher School Online Escape Room Challenges
The school community will participate in online escape room activities where family members can cooperatively discover clues, solve puzzles, and complete tasks to progress through a series of challenges. The challenges selected draw on a number of disciplines including science, technology and mathematics. Each grade from Kindergarten to Year 6, will have the opportunity to…
See Inside Canberra’s One and Only Insect Farm – the future of waste management and protein production
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14 August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
MIE Lab – Maths Modelling Challenge – Meat Consumption Scenario
Planetary health is a relatively new branch of science focusing on safeguarding the health of human civilisation and the state of the natural systems on which we depend. This branch of science has put lower meat consumption at the heart of reducing humanity’s negative impact on the environment. Deforestation of land for livestock adds to the carbon footprint of a heavy meat diet and reduces available land that could produce far…
Beacy Does National Science Week
As the culmination of our week of events, including competitions, guest speakers, staff quizzes and a tabloid science day for P-6 students we will be creating a book about food, recipes and food fables from history.
See inside Canberra\\\\\\\’s one and only insect farm – the future of waste management and protein production.
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14th August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
See inside Canberra\\\’s one and only insect farm – the future of waste management and protein production.
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14th August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
Environmental Conditions and the Growth of Plants
Students will explore a variety of conditions which influence the growth of plants.
Community Plant Based Recipe Competition
Creating a plant based community cookbook. As part of National Science Week celebrations John Curtin College of the Arts Roots and Shoots club in association with the Science, Food Technology and Media departments are running a competition to find our communities favourite plant based recipes. The 2021 theme Food: Different by Design can not only…
Free online screening: A Plastic Ocean – 22 minute condensed version
Each minute, the equivalent of a garbage truck of rubbish enters the worlds oceans, estimated to cause the death of over a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals and turtles every year. As humans, we aren’t immune to the impacts of our addiction to plastic, with scientists predicting that we are eating a credit card size…