To celebrate National Science Week, we’re challenging all Australians to find out what connects them to the ocean, wherever they live. From taking photos of local waterways to designing and building a water filter, you can explore your connection to the ocean as deeply as you’d like. Head to our National Science Week Challenge website to learn…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
The Science and Citizens of the Coorong
Join us for a short film about the Coorong and the scientists and citizens helping to return it to a healthy system for all to enjoy. The Coorong is a unique environment that forms part of the Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Wetland, a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. It is important that work…
Engineers Speed Myth Buster
In this webinar, we ask three engineers to go head-to-head to answer all of your burning engineering questions and bust the most common myths about what engineering careers really look like, from hiking boots to hijabs and heels. Join Careers with STEM co-founder and journalist Heather Catchpole online as we speed test the latest edition…
Art and sustainability: A Geelong Gallery collection resource
Geelong Gallery is committed to engaging with the realities of our changing climate and environment through the works of leading artists. With your students, explore the potential of artists to address current global sustainability challenges and inspire change. This education resource examines five key works in the Gallery’s permanent collection that highlight themes such as…
Australian Animal Track Identification
Join the Adelaide Hills Science Hub and Hub patron Rob Morrison, OAM and zoological researcher will talk to us about Australian animals and their identification by the tracks they leave. We will then be learning how to make Aboriginal representations of tracks with our own hands in sand with Uncle Ivan Tiwi-Copley, OAM. We will…
Swim with the Giant Australian Cuttlefish – Virtual Tour
An internationally unique marine phenomena occurs from May to August each year, in the cold water of Upper Spencer Gulf Marine Park near Whyalla. This amazing annual event is the aggregation of the Giant Australian Cuttlefish, who migrate to the rocky coastline with one thing on their mind, to breed. The Giant Australian Cuttlefish is…
Pippa and Dronie – Virtual Book Launch
Pippa and Dronie is a gorgeously illustrated book for young readers aged 5 to 9, celebrating diversity in STEM. The Virtual Launch Party will allow students in their classrooms to join the author, illustrator, and the real-life scientists and drone professionals featured in the book, live and online. During National Science Week we are holding…
STEM Festival
Looking at STEM-M (medicine in science). Students in Years 3-6 will all be involved in STEM-M related activities for the day. This includes having a variety of professional guest speakers and hands-on activities which encompass the elements of science and how it impacts on medicine.
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.
Virtual tour of Great Southern Reef Marine Life – Aboriginal connections
We have all heard of the Great Barrier Reef but who has heard of the Great Southern Reef? Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries will collaborate with universities, Indigenous communities, the Department for Environment and Water, Marine Parks, the dive industry and science communicators to tell the story of the Great Southern Reef and its inhabitants. Events will…