Students will explore recess and lunchtime activities over the course of National Science Week. They will: build pollen traps undergo flower dissections understand thermodynamics by designing a vertical wall or roof top garden burn food to find energy content investigate aquaculture undergo a sensory food journey
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
The Future of Foods, From the Ground Up
Activities will explore the future opportunities in food science and STEM. The environmental impact of food production systems and how the food we grow or harvest can impact climate change. Highlighting site appropriate agriculture, students will follow an existing bush food trail through our school grounds and adjacent parklands guided by our local Indigenous elders….
Eastlakes Public School Science Fair
The Eastlakes Public School Science Fair will showcase science and technology across all years K-6. Students, teachers, parents and community members will have the opportunity to participate in experiments, share learning and challenge their thinking with creative and critical thinking challenges.
Fire Pit Cooking
Junior School Students will have an opportunity to experience Indigenous cooking in an open firepit. Students will make their own damper and cook it in the coals of the fire.
Scintillating Science Quiz
Test your knowledge against some of the finest scientific minds at Murdoch University across the four high-school science subjects. This event will be held online and is open to the whole community – people of all ages are encouraged to participate. Get your friends together to compete or compete on your own for giveaways and…
Durack School Science Fair
An all day Science Fair will be held at Durack School on Thursday 19 August from 9am until 2pm. Students will participate in a whole school event that explores food, fibre, natural medicines, energy, chemistry & related technology.
Science Alive!
Science Alive! is the largest mobile science exhibition in Australia, bringing together the big names in science and technology – it really is all kinds of awesome! There are over 60 exhibitors at Adelaide Showground with interactive, fun, dynamic and educative displays designed to spark the curiosity in all of us, plus science shows for all…
Indigenous Science Experience Online
What can Aboriginal astronomy tell us about the night sky? How is our native flora used as bush medicine? What can we learn about sustainable living from 60 000+ years of Indigenous culture? Find out the answers to these questions and more during the Indigenous Science Experience Online. The Indigenous Science Experience Online will consist…
Yhonnie Scarce | Nuclear Histories with Dr Liz Tynan
Join journalist, nuclear researcher, and author Associate Professor Liz Tynan PhD to gain an insight into the history of British nuclear testing in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. This lecture provides context and background to complement Yhonnie Scarce’s exhibition Missile Park currently showing at the IMA. Scarce’s work is underpinned by extensive and in-depth research that explores the impact…
Yhonnie Scarce | STEM + Art Workshop
Undertake a design challenge to create an architectural sculpture in this hands-on workshop for primary and secondary students to complement Yhonnie Scarce’s Missile Park exhibition. Students will investigate the structural and aesthetic properties of cardboard and apply a variety of joining techniques to create a 3D sculpture (monument, structure or architectural model) inspired by the…