Topic: Environment and Nature

Bee-3D: Bee the change you want to see

BEE-3D empowers students to assist bee populations and grasp their crucial role in sustainability. Collaborating with Bayside Beekeepers conservation groups, students explore bees’ significance as pollinators. They then craft LEGO bee models representing local bee population challenges. Following this, students design 3D-printed structures such as flowerpots and nesting boxes to support bee habitats. These structures…

Scales and Sustainability

This summer, the Pine Rivers Special School has had a high number of red-bellied black snakes on our school grounds. Can we find a solution to this real-life problem? The snakes are being driven out of their land behind the school due to a new housing development. The increased number of snakes at our school…

Science Munch – Brain Break Cuppa Quiz

Read this first! Beware science and baked good imminent.  Come, enjoy warm collegial company with your hot beverage.  Inject some zest for science into the departmental office’s day.

Sustainable Discoveries at St Agatha’s

Sustainable Discoveries @ St Agatha’s Showcase Day to explore the Science Week theme of ‘Species Survival’. For this event, each year level will choose an area or an issue relating to the theme of ‘Species Survival’ (linked with Biological Sciences). There will be a range of hands-on activities which will take place in each classroom/year level….

Koala Workshop – Scats, Scratches and Screams

Learn all about the science, technologies, programs and people that help find and protect koalas. In response to community questions about the impact of the NSW Government’s Koala Strategy, Cessnock City Council is bringing together a panel of experts for a community forum at Laguna Community Hall for National Science Week. Expert speakers will include…

A celebration of science at Stuart Park Primary School!

At Stuart Park Primary School we recognise that Science plays an important role in helping children develop communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and logical thinking skills. National Science Week is a terrific platform to highlight this to our students. During National Science Week, our students will unpack and explore this year’s schools theme of Species Survival….

Keep ’em Alive! – Dogs, cats and native species

AMRRIC’s education program, Dog Mob Cat Crew, are hosting a school education project in a remote Indigenous school in the Northern Territory for Science Week 2024. The event focuses on the roles companion animal pet owners have in keeping native and ecologically important species alive in the Northern Territory. The education program will involve students…

Mount Barker Community College Science Week Expo

Year 6 students from the College will prepare STEM projects for display during Science Week. They will form small groups of 2-3 students, research their own projects and prepare posters and procedures for their display. During the Expo, students from Pre-primary to Year 7 will rotate through the stations, exploring a range of different STEM…

Roseworth’s Amazing Race

Each class will be given an Amazing Race by their teachers on Monday. They will then do that Amazing Race, having fun and learning along the way. They will then have the challenge of making an Amazing Race for another class and competing against the other classes’ Amazing Race at the same time. Alongside the…