Students at Glenmore State High School will participate in STEM activities throughout National Science Week. These activities will be designed to allow students the opportunity to participate in hands on, engaging science experiments, challenges and demonstrations. The overall goal is to promote the STEM subjects within our school and allow students to learn more about…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Huon Valley STEM Expo
The Huon STEM Expo, organised by the Huonville High Future Energy Team, will involve workshops and displays from the community such as Circular Economy Huon and the University of Tasmania. The focus will be on technology, energy, and waste with a STEM technology challenge on the theme ‘food by design’, to make a solar cooker…
Seed Germination
Year 8 and 9 students will participate by germinating their own broad bean seed in a beaker, making observations and measurements (height), recording objective and subjective assessment for 5 weeks, before planting own seed in a garden bed. Each student will care and tend to their own seed. Measurements and observations to continue after outside…
Creating a Frog-friendly Garden
An educational event that will explain the eco systems required for frogs and what our community can do to provide backyard habitats for our native fauna. The open days and workshops will show people how to create welcoming environments for our native frogs in their own backyards by providing them with the materials to set…
National Science Week at Wyndham College
Event Description and Activities – Celebration of National Science Week involving a variety of learning experiences for students aligned with the theme Food: different by design. Activities will include: morning tea for staff organised by Biology and Food technology students who will work together to cook edible scientific models and plant based meat products. Food…
Indigenous Science Experience at Logan – Primary School Days
At the Indigenous Science Experience at Logan, school students from primary schools in the Logan area will take part in immersive Indigenous STEM activities including learning about boomerangs, weaving, bush medicines, and native bees. This event will celebrate the rich cultural and STEM knowledge held by Indigenous Australians and highlight its value to students. Please…
Cochlear Aurora Science Photo Contest
The Aurora Science Photo Contest is for schoolgirls to get them to think about everyday science through photography. This contest is an alternative way to engage female school students with science to make them aware of science in everyday life. Flinders University’s 2021 Cochlear Aurora Photo Contest is now open, offering cash prizes to reward young female…
Eco-dyeing 101 – Using local plants and flowers
In the quest to live more sustainably, learning to dye naturals materials such as wool, silk and cotton (and upcycling garments made from proteins and cellulose) using plants and flowers from the immediate neighbourhood is interesting, fun, sustainable, responsible, has a low carbon footprint… and is a process jam packed with science. Join us at Alphington…
Our Fruit and Veggie-verse
Write a poem that has something to do with FRUITS and/or VEGETABLES: it could be about how you enjoy eating a certain fruit or vegetable: its colour, texture, taste and beauty; how it is linked to culture, traditions or dishes you enjoy; how to care, store and not waste them; how, when and where they…
Pollination Produces our Food
Community members will gain greater awareness of the importance of pollinators such as bees and other insects to modern society through interactive displays, lectures, demonstrations, site visits and a Festival. Pollination in the Gardens, a two-week series of interactive exhibits and experiments developed and presented with the Hunter Valley Amateur Beekeepers Association. The Children’s University…