We have all heard of the Great Barrier Reef but who has heard of the Great Southern Reef? Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries will collaborate with universities, Indigenous communities, the Department for Environment and Water, Marine Parks, the dive industry and science communicators to tell the story of the Great Southern Reef and its inhabitants. Events will…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Virtual tour of Great Southern Reef Marine Life – Giant Australian Cuttlefish
We have all heard of the Great Barrier Reef but who has heard of the Great Southern Reef? Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries will collaborate with universities, Indigenous communities, the Department for Environment and Water, Marine Parks, the dive industry and science communicators to tell the story of the Great Southern Reef and its inhabitants. Events will…
Beaconsfield CFC Science Learning Packs
Our early years teacher will develop some special science-at-home packs for our children and families to learn, create and explore together. Packs will feature a range of safe, age appropriate, play-based learning resources and safety instructions for completion with parents to explore topics such as the environment, sounds, liquids, flight, weight, floatation etc. The packs…
Science in the Playground
East Hills Girls Technology High School will have tables set up in the quad during lunch time for students participate to interact with and complete challenges.
Explore and Learn at Home
Eighty George Town families will be provided with a pack including everything you need to do five interesting, fun and engaging STEM activities at home. You will receive all the materials you need, including instruction cards that you can use again and again. Every day during National Science Week, George Town Library will post a…
The Marine Team! Schools virtual incursion
The Marine Team! celebrates the National Science Week school theme, Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans, and explores marine science and innovation to achieve long-term sustainability of our oceans. The educational theatre sketch comedy is full of scientific facts and is captured live-online with multi-cameras and in high definition, so everyone watches from…
Science Exchange Series – Where did the beach go?
Our local beaches have had a rough start to winter with many looking narrower than they have been in some years as a result of recent storms. Many of us who visit our local WA beaches may wonder how and why our coastlines change shape so dramatically throughout the seasons. Join Dr Jeff Hansen, as…
Science Exchange Series – Visualising a Virus
When dealing with the strange nanoscopic world that is simply too small to see, experiments and data visualisation approaches are vitally important to our understanding of life on this scale. Brady Johnston is a PhD student in structural biology at UWA. Brady will introduce you to how data is collected and presented, leading to famous images…
PrimeSCI! School Holiday Science Webinars
PrimeSCI! Winter School Holiday Science Workshops will be running from Monday 29 June – Friday 10 July and will be filled with hands-on home science for your children. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, PrimeSCI! will be providing live-streamed Zoom Webinars for the Winter School Holidays. Webinars are scheduled to run for a minimum of…
Oceans of Poetry
Write a poem about THE OCEAN: it could be a discovery under the waves; a form of ocean life you find interesting; anything that’s Ocean-related. By the time National Science Week begins the Science Rhymes website will display a collection of your rhyming verse poems about THE OCEAN and related science discoveries that have captured…