National Science Week provides us with a chance to discover a local urban success story. Geography Victoria is offering a fieldtrip with local restoration and environmental specialists exploring the challenges, successes and opportunities of managing our urban environment. Our three focus areas will be: * The community-driven rewilding and transformation of the former Elsternwick golf course in North…
Topic: Environment and Nature
Science Week at Macclesfield Primary School
For the 2023 theme of Innovation: Powering Future Industries we have Megan Volta from For the Love of Science coming in to help us run a series of activities and events each day. The following activities will run across the week, with all students involved. Some of these activities will run as opt in events,…
Citizen Science Apps: How and why you should use them
Join us for an exciting event that explores the fascinating world of citizen science apps. Apps like iNaturalist and eBird are great tools for learning about the flora and fauna around us, and can also be used to record observations. Discover the incredible potential of these apps for identifying things in the field and learn…
The Drag Experiment
The Drag Experiment is the show of the year for drag lovers, science nerds, and all folks across the LGBTQIA+ and STEM spectra. Headlined by four phenomenal people who are scientists by day and drag performers by night. You’ll be dazzled with show stopping drag performances interwoven with scientific concepts and research. Hosted by Dr…
Science Fair Extravaganza
The concept will be to engage the wider community and have students from North Cottesloe Primary School present to a range of stakeholders, fellow students, staff, parents and the local community. Our Science Fair Extravaganza will involve students from Year 1 to Year 6. The event will include students presenting their findings to all stakeholders…
Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition
Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition returns for National Science Week after three sold-out shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival. Each show features six scientists who have partnered with comedians to bring laughter to their science talks. Laugh and learn at the same time. Just how much alcohol consumption really is good for us? Can science…
Science Alive Show – Very Strange Stuff
Celebrate National Science Week with Science Alive’s fantastic show all about Very Strange Stuff. Explore the materials that make up our world: adventures with liquids, solids and gases, flying teabags and huge bubbles. For children aged 4 years and over, accompanied by an adult.
Friends of the Fitzgerald River National Park – Weekend in the Fitzgerald Biosphere
The Friends of the Fitzgerald River National Park are inviting members for a weekend to visit Bush Heritage and Nowanup properties to learn Noongar culture and local eco-restoration efforts to celebrate national Science Week – the country’s week-long celebration of all things STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths). Event details Cultural walk with Uncle Eugene Eades…
Great Glossy Count Training Workshop – Sunshine Coast
Join like-minded bird-lovers to learn how to locate and identify Glossy Black-Cockatoos and their feed trees in the wild. Eric Anderson from Birdlife Southern Queensland will present information about Glossy Black-Cockatoo identification and ecology. Participants will also have the opportunity to sign on to the second annual Great Glossy Count which will be held on…
The New Sciences of Sex and Reproduction | Challis lecture in Philosophy
New developments in biomedical science have disrupted the formerly tight links between biology and our social practices of categorising people as male and female, parent and child. The School of Humanities at the University of Sydney will be joined by the ABC’s Big Ideas for this public lecture with: Paul E. Griffiths, Challis Professor of…