Elizabeth Macarthur High School is hosting an exciting private National Science Week celebration in Week 4 of Term 3! Our event will feature a series of engaging and educational activities designed to inspire and challenge students across all year levels. Students will become junior palaeontologists in our Dino Dig, excavating and analysing replica dinosaur fossils…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Science Week Storytime
This science-themed edition of our weekly storytime will help to foster and interest in science for children aged 2+. Join us for stories, activities, songs and a hands-on activity. Sessions are repeated on Tuesdays & Thursdays. Bookings are not required. Everyone is welcome.
STEAM Punks – Science Week Edition
Is your child excited by science, technology, engineering, art or maths? Foster their interests and join us for our STEAM Punk sessions for primary-school-aged kids. They can have some fun while learning and make new friends. This program is for primary-school-aged children (ages 5-12 years). Bookings are required and open two weeks before the session…
Science Night with Nate Byrne
Slip into SparkLab at Queensland Museum Kurilpa for an adults-only night of science with the incandescent Nate Byrne. He’s a meteorologist, oceanographer, science communicator and well-known ABC personality. Let this all-rounder take you on a journey around the world to celebrate National Science Week. Science Night includes: Nate Byrne’s take on a smorgasbord of science…
Year 10 BioBlitz Camp
BioBlitz Camp 2024 for Year 10 Students Learn all things biology and ecology over this fact-finding weekend! A BioBlitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. The weekend will showcase field ecology surveying with ecological experts. The camp is an overnight stay featuring…
Build Your Own Ecosystem
Participants will build their own ecosystem in order to understand the complexities involved in maintaining world ecosystems in order to enhance the survival of threatened species.
Science Is Fun – Digging Dinosaurs Workshop
Kids will have a roaring great time as they learn about dinosaurs in this hands-on workshop designed to look at paleontology in a realistic way. Check out the life-size replica of the Velociraptor dinosaur skull and come face to face with T-Rex! Work like a real paleontologist; dig out and analyze the specimens found. Find…
Science Is Fun – Marvellous Mixtures Workshop
In this hands-on science workshop, participants will investigate all manner of suspensions, colloids and solutions and explore different ways of separating mixtures including filtration, chromatography, and magnetism. Are these physical techniques or chemical techniques? Activities include: Filter my water Disappearing water Magnetic attraction Kitchen chemistry Strange suspension Saltwater science, and much more! For ages 5 and up.
Biodiversity Fest
The Trentham District Primary School “Biodiversity-fest” will involve our citizen scientists (Year 6 students) transferring their knowledge to younger students within the school, with the aim to increase environmental literacy throughout the school and to showcase that Science is fun! Students will carry out experiments with adherence to fair testing, repetition, measuring, maths calculations and…
Sydney’s Waterways Tour
Centennial Park is the site of some of Sydney’s oldest and most important water supplies. Follow the expert on the subject Prof Khan from the University of Sydney. During the tour, you will: Learn about historic water schemes like Busby’s Bore and Botany Swamps, which provided water to Sydney from the 1830s to the 1880s …