At the Indigenous Science Experience at Logan, school students from primary schools in the Logan area will take part in immersive Indigenous STEM activities including learning about boomerangs, weaving, bush medicines, and native bees. This event will celebrate the rich cultural and STEM knowledge held by Indigenous Australians and highlight its value to students. Please…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
Cochlear Aurora Science Photo Contest
The Aurora Science Photo Contest is for schoolgirls to get them to think about everyday science through photography. This contest is an alternative way to engage female school students with science to make them aware of science in everyday life. Flinders University’s 2021 Cochlear Aurora Photo Contest is now open, offering cash prizes to reward young female…
Pollination Produces our Food
Community members will gain greater awareness of the importance of pollinators such as bees and other insects to modern society through interactive displays, lectures, demonstrations, site visits and a Festival. Pollination in the Gardens, a two-week series of interactive exhibits and experiments developed and presented with the Hunter Valley Amateur Beekeepers Association. The Children’s University…
STEM Hour: Connect, learn, grow – Exploring Bush Tucker
What comes to mind when we think about Australian cuisine? There are few things more Aussie than meat pies and the good old barbie. In our July webinar, we will celebrate food that has been here for thousands of years, much longer than the sausage sizzle: Bush Tucker. Join us on a journey back in…
Science Night At The Museum
Science Night at the Museum is a science fair run at the Museum of the Goldfields each year over National Science Week. The event showcases what mining companies, the council and other organisations in the region are doing. The objective of this program is to encourage an interest in science among the public and encourage…
Tasty Atoms
Events throughout the week with junior and upper primary classes held during science lessons and a shared learning time from 9.00 – 9.40 am daily. Activities include: extending chemical sciences into fantastic food designs building chemical molecules using fruit pieces for healthy fruit snack experimenting with changes in state – demonstrating changes with heating and…
Ecofestival
Using our school community garden to grow, pick and cook with the fresh vegetables. Making bread in school kitchen and using herbs for Indigenous flavours. Star gazing event at night.
Kilcoy State School Science Fair
Kilcoy State School are excited to whet our appetites with 2021’s National Science Week theme of Food: Different by Design. From Prep to Year 6, all classes will showcase their amazing work by creating Science Stations with visual displays linked to hands-on activities and technology of their chosen Science unit topic or STEM passion. This…
Outdoor Sustainable Learning
At the end of 2020 the school’s P&C donated money towards creating an outdoor learning environment. This first stage involved building a shelter shed, water tanks and establishing some garden beds. The aim is to continue to develop this area so as to provide a learning environment for our school community. Our National Science Week…
Holy Cross Science Week
The students will engage in a range of fun and engaging science activities based around the theme Food: Different by Design. Each year level will be responsible for bringing a STEM activity to share with their peers on our multipurpose court. Activities will include ice cream in a bag, solids, liquids and gases, reversible and…