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….
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
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…
Bring Back the Karaks
We have a problem at Woodlands Primary School – many birds used to feed and nest within our school, but we are seeing less and less of them each year. The STEM whole school project of Bringing Back the Kaarakins (endangered black cockatoos) will be conducted in weekly Science lessons with the Science Specialist. Each year group from Kindy to Year 6…
Everyday Science
We will be providing opportunities for students to experience science every day of the week. We are providing opportunities for students to see how science is used in everyday life from making a bush tucker garden to chemical reactions of everyday household ingredients.
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…
St Carlo’s – National Science Week Activities
Hi there, science fans! Ready for some fun? We’re on a mission to discover what happens when hot and cold mix, and we’re going to do it by making a cloud inside a bottle. When the hot air in the bottle meets cold air, it turns into a cloud that you can’t undo—pretty wild, huh? But…
Microbats
As one component of a school-wide series of workshops and weeklong event held in National Science Week, students will learn about the biodiversity of the Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC) that is present on our school grounds. To replenish the biodiversity of the grasslands, students will be involved in various activities such as, building bat boxes,…