Ntaria School middle and senior years students will travel and camp at Palm Valley along with local rangers and community elders. This excursion and camp will be in week five provided there is no restriction for the DOE due to COVID19. During this study trip, the students will learn about the historical background of the…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
Traditional Knowledge and Science – sit side by side to understand and manage country
Traditional knowledge and science can sit side by side to understand and manage country. The Njanjma Aboriginal Corporation will showcase this theme – encouraging participation of indigenous rangers and school age children in cultural and investigative activities which aim to explore the fields of knowledge and methods of knowledge building held by traditional owners and…
Gawler and District College Junior School
Gawler and District College Junior School will be hosting an event in National Science Week. The event will run everyday throughout recess and lunch breaks as well a a whole day on that week. The students will be involved in hands on activities and experiments. The focus of the event will be agriculture (as we…
Canberra Women of Science and Art
Canberra Women of Science and Art will showcase a diverse group of Canberran women. All working in or inspired by science, tech, engineering, art and maths (STEAM). These interesting people are anything but ‘boring scientists’. From illustrators to robot designers to indigenous storytellers, we bet you’ll want to find out more about their stories and…
Science Pub Trivia – At home
Science Pub Trivia is on again in 2020- but this time, you can play along at home. Get your team together and tune in on Facebook Live for this entertaining evening: questions will cover all areas of the scientific world, the latest tech and pop culture too! There’ll be questions for everyone.
South Australian Museum Podcast: Collection Stories
Collection Stories will be the South Australian Museum’s first ever podcast series featuring stories about our collections. Over the course of four episodes listeners will hear firsthand from museum professionals about why museums keep things, what types of things we collect, what do we learn from them, how do we care from them, and how…
The Weird the Wacky of the Animal Kingdom plus DeadlyScience
Join us as we take a journey looking at the weird the wonderful and the wacky animals from around the world. Then we cover all things DeadlyScience where we chat about the original scientists and what we do. Don’t miss it.
Science Exhibition at Meadow Springs Primary School
We have a program planned for the whole week but on Thursday 20 August we have an open exhibition for parents and the community to view. This exhibition goes all day and invitations are also sent out to other local schools. The community can view all the work students have completed especially the STEM activities….
SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE: Exhibition at MOD.
The year is 2050. In southern Australia there is a plot of land known as Eucalara. Eucalara is already feeling the impact of climate change. Climate refugees started arriving decades ago, invasive species are on the move, and water is an increasingly precious resource. Amongst all this are seven siblings. The siblings have inherited this…
Great Aussie BioQuest 2020
The fourth annual Great Aussie BioQuest runs during National Science Week, 15-23 August. This challenge, open to all Australians, draws attention to an urgent aspect of managing our climate change-induced biome – the lack of comprehensive data on biodiversity. It aims to address this problem by engaging people from all walks of life in a…