Bush trip to look at bush food plants, including hunting for maku. We will spend time looking at the plants and creating detailed sketches to include in Luritja books about caring for country. We will also begin a bush food garden to encourage healthy eating and to teach about growing, caring for, and maintaining indigenous…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
Frog Pond and Biodiversity Garden
This event will create an area where students can observe the environment around the pond and the plants. Students in Science, Maths, Engineering, Technology and the Environment Club will utilise the space to examine the importance of biodiversity, study species interactions, learn of First Nations plant uses, learn population ecology, and harvest bush foods for…
Science and Storytelling, Technology and Tradition
Discover the Ancient Science of the Land: A One-Day Journey Through Indigenous STEM Step into the world of traditional Indigenous science and technology for a unique, one-day experience at the Wildbark learning centre during National Science Week. Join us at Mulligans Flat, where the critically endangered box gum grassy woodlands set the perfect backdrop for…
Careers with STEM – Indigenous edition launch
On 8 August, on the eve of National Science Week, ~50 students from CSIRO’s Young Indigenous Women’s STEM Academy and Deadly in Generation STEM programs went to Google HQ in Sydney for student workshops, a STEM careers panel, yarning circle and magazine launch of Careers with STEM Indigenous Edition, which was sponsored by CSIRO and…
Accoustics and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Milkwood Students are working with Indigenous Traditional Owner Les Huddleston to study optics and acoustics through Indigenous Knowledge Systems. This project involves students studying and building traditional instruments didgeridoos and clapsticks, to understand the science of acoustics in these ceremonial instruments. Drawing on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in areas of Optics and Accoustics, students will take…
Be a Biosecurity Champion
Discover how you can become a Biosecurity Champion today (and every day). Join us here to learn about the importance of biosecurity and test your knowledge with our Kahoot! quiz. Australia is free from many of the world’s most damaging pests and diseases. These are harmful to our natural environment, including our native plants and animals….
First Scientist Workshop
For this program we would facilitate our tools and weapons program. In this program the students will have a hands-on cultural experience to feel, smell and learn how different tools, weapons and resources are used and how they were made. Some of the items the students will look at are different boomerangs, spears, spear…
Indigenous Inventions
Get ready for an exciting National Science Week where we’re exploring how Indigenous peoples have used their incredible knowledge and inventions to help animals survive and thrive for thousands of years. This year, our theme is “Indigenous Inventions: Surviving and Thriving, Past, Present, and Future.” It’s going to be a journey through time where you’ll…
Grandis Saves the World ‘STEAM Breaks’
All through National Science Week during recess and lunch breaks the whole school will be involved in science inquiry-based activities themed by the letters of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). This will complement our science education lessons looking at this year’s Science Week schools theme of Species Survival – More Than Just Sustainability in…
Species Survivability in the West Wimmera
The school theme for National Science Week in 2024 is Species Survival – More than just sustainability. The theme aims to highlight the importance of science and innovation in ensuring the survival and thriving of different species in an ever-changing world. At Edenhope College we’ve decided to meet the scientists who work in the field to…