The Goethe-Institut has a selection of online science films and videos, DIY science experiments and quizzes that schools can access for free during National Science Week. The resources are great for interdisciplinary activities that combine STEM and German. Most materials are available in German and English. As a highlight during Science Week the documentary feature film “Checker…
Topic: Health and Medical
SciFest Parasites and You (from ANU)
In National Science Week meet parasites and the ANU researchers studying them, through a series of videos, blogs and games. Learn what a parasite is and take a close look at these amazing critters – some 100 times smaller than the eye can see and others the length of a swimming pool! Learn how ANU…
ANU Student Association: Health Innovation Hackathon – Fighting Pandemics
A collaboration between the Joint College of Science Representatives and ANU Humanitarian Innovation Society, this week-long event challenges teams to solve contemporary scientific and humanitarian problems through an interdisciplinary approach. The program features workshops guided by mentors from academia and industry. This will culminate in a pitch that will be presented to the public and…
STEM Festival
Looking at STEM-M (medicine in science). Students in Years 3-6 will all be involved in STEM-M related activities for the day. This includes having a variety of professional guest speakers and hands-on activities which encompass the elements of science and how it impacts on medicine.
Soapbox Science Sydney Online 2020
Come learn from, question, probe, interact with & be inspired by some of Australia’s leading female researchers in science, technology, engineering & maths. Over four nights Soapbox Science Sydney Online presents 12 researchers, each with 45 minutes to amaze you with their latest discoveries & to answer the questions you have been burning to ask….
E-meet a (Biomedical) Scientist
What better way to celebrate National Science Week than by connecting budding high school students with University of Melbourne biomedical scientists? Through 15–30-minute video calls, our experts – many of whom are global leaders in their research field – will help inspire the next generation of scientists. Students in Year 9 and above from metropolitan,…
How can we progress biomedical research without animal experiments? Examples from infectious disease research and ME/CFS.
Humane Research Australia (HRA) is a not-for-profit organisation devoted to the promotion of experimental and testing methods that replace the ongoing reliance upon animals as research models of human health and disease. There is an established history of resistance to animal experimentation based on ethical grounds, but more recently concerns have also appeared in relation…
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…
Being a Lab Technician
Happy Explorers and Raspberry Rockets present how to make your own specimen analyzer at home and a discussion about what a specimen analyzer does. Lisa from Happy Explorers is a Lab Technician. She will discuss what her job entails and why it is so important. An online Instagram IGTV collaboration.
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…