Mercedes College will focus on our unique position as a school in the heart of the CBD for National Science Week. We will focus on two challenges in the city, homelessness and waste with its associated pests. Firstly, students will be given the challenge to devise food solutions for people without traditional methods of food…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
Mini Masterchefs! What Can you Create?
As the theme for this year is Food – Different by Design, our challenges for the students include creative food preparation and designing a new scarecrow for our school kitchen garden. * Whole school challenge K-6: Create your own delicious and healthy smoothie * Stages 2 & 3 challenge: Create an appetising dinner meal using mince. …
Indigenous Uses of Plants
Indigenous man Adam Shipp from Yurbay will come to the school and give a talk about traditional uses of plants. After the talk, the students will be exposed to native plants and investigate the environmental factors and sustainability of them. How the ancient cultures used and harvested these plants and the medicinal and healing properties…
Grafton High School – Year 6 Transition in Science Week
Grafton High School uses National Science Week to help get local primary school students interested and keen for science when they start Year 7. Year 10 Select and Gold classes run scientific experiments with the Year 6 students and talk to them about science and general high school life.
Bungendore Public School Science Day
There will be a variety of activities going on across the whole school for National Science Week: teachers talk to classes and introduce science week theme. Year 6’s pick up Kindy’s and take them to their peer support classes. Year 6 students leading a making ice cream experiment. Two bags of ice cream will be…
Food, Different by Design Expo
Our School will be hosting a variety of demonstrations that will cater for our students from Prep through to Year 6. The events will be set up in different locations around the school both indoor and outdoor and they will be Year Level appropriate. The day will be run to a timetable with seven time…
Lockyer District High School Science Festival
All students at Lockyer District High School will have access to activities each day of National Science Week. With a focus on the theme ‘Food Better By Design’, students can participate in a Science Brain Break lunch; experience the world differently through AR and VR technology; watch winning entries in the SCINEMA International Science Film…
Farmer Wants a Slice!
The STEM process will need to start prior to the Farmer Wants a Slice Day which will be held during National Science Week. Due to COVID import restrictions, the school canteen is unable to buy/sell its most popular items: Potato Gem Slice Ice Cream slice Sunflower Slice Cinnamon Slice How can we help the canteen…
St Margaret’s Berwick Grammar Science Market Fair
Students in Y7-9 at St Margaret’s Berwick Grammar will showcase their science fair Food Different by Design projects to other students in our P-12 school, parents and the wider community COVID restrictions permitting. Each year level has been assigned a theme ranging from GM food crops, sustainable foods, composting and nutrient cycling and the water…
National Science Week at Bute Early Learning and Primary School
Students will be immersed in a range of learning experiences linked to the National Science Week theme Food: Different by design. This will include students using virtual reality to explore food production process from around the world. Student will also investigate and sample edible insects as a sustainable, bit currently non-mainstream, food source.