Topic: Environment and Nature

Aquaponics

Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture, which is growing fish and other aquatic animals, and hydroponics which is growing plants without soil. Aquaponics uses these two in a symbiotic combination in which plants are fed the aquatic animals’ discharge or waste. In return, the vegetables clean the water that goes back to the fish. Along…

Tackling Food Waste: a Tasmanian Perspective

Eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food waste. Food waste in landfill emits methane, a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. We have the power to reduce these emissions: 50% of food waste/losses in Australia are at the household level, with household food waste in Australia amounting to $10…

Noticing Nature Walk

Nature Play Tasmania and the Sustainable Learning Centre (SLC) is leading a Noticing Nature Walk, a 2-hour nature play provocation in the bushlands around the SLC. This event is for children aged 0 to 7, accompanied by their parents/carers/grandparents, aimed at engaging children in the science of observation.  Children and parents/carers will explore the Bushland…

Edible Butterflies

Butterflies are very beautiful and fragile creatures. As Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory describes it, they are airborne worms. How do butterflies become butterflies? This event provides a visual representation of the lifecycle of a butterfly using edible food.

Preserving Fruit

How can fruit be kept for a longer duration of time?  Fruit is a food that does not last very long. It ripens at a fast rate. Food industries have sought ways to keep fruit longer. be it for earning a profit (more fruit on the market and minimalise loss) or to ensure food that arrives…

Beenleigh SHS Science Week

Students will be invited down into the Science Block each day of the week to complete a different set of activities each day related to food and sustainability – tied in heavily with the school’s farm. Monday:  beeswax wraps Tuesday: making butter and yoghurt Wednesday: bush tucker lunch Thursday: farm food to lunch Friday: present…

STEAMFest

STEAMFest is a festival of science based around the theme Food: Different by Design to promote interest in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Maths. The event will bring together students, teachers and academics to acknowledge outstanding achievement for STEAM students in the Moreton Bay Region. Students from primary and secondary schools will…

Sustainable Food and Fibre Fair at Tasman District School

Our students will be engaged in hands on learning opportunities that will be on offer during National Science Week. Throughout the week the 5 primary classes will call on community expertise, speak to and collaborate with high school students on the school farm, seek parent volunteers and share their exciting week through social media and…

Let’s Get Scientific

Moulden Park will have an afternoon where students can become scientists. All classes will participate conducting a variety of experiments, making predictions watching science videos and learning the role that science plays in their everyday lives. Showing them that they are all scientists. Transition students will go on a journey of discovery as they are immersed…