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…
Topic: Environment and Nature
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…
UNSW Bragg Student Science Writing Prize
Are you a writer in Years 7-10? Want to win great prizes? What are the solutions that will help us to address global challenges such as catastrophic climate change, global pandemics, severe weather and sea level rise? From bushfire science using smart satellites and Indigneous know-how, to vaccine development, citizen science apps tracking insect population…
Science Exchange Series – What can I actually do with my drone?
Drone use has grown rapidly in recent years. As a society we have come to appreciate drones and remote sensors as affordable tools that enable high resolution and on-demand data collection. Join Dr Nik Callow (Senior Lecturer and UWA Chief Remote Pilot) as he explores the purpose of drones as useful remote sensing tools in…