Topic: Mathematics

Planks STEM workshop

We’re inviting Green-Hat workshops to come to visit Hillcrest Christian School to run a planks workshop with our Prep to Year 2 students. The students will explore forces, movement, balance, and symmetry as they participate in large-scale creative construction activities.  We’re hoping the students will enjoy working in teams, taking risks, and extending their understanding…

The Young Scientist Research Prizes

To foster and recognise excellence in Victoria’s early career scientists, the Royal Society of Victoria offers four, prestigious, competitive prizes, open to Victorian students in their final year of doctoral candidature, in all areas of the Biomedical & Health Sciences, Biological Sciences (non-human), Earth Sciences and Physical Sciences. Following assessment of applications across the four…

Science Week at Trinity Gardens School

A mind-blowing excursion for Reception to Year 6 students to our local glass blowing studio, Eamonn Vereker Glass. Students will observe, question and learn from local artists in action and Eamonn himself. Engaging, curriculum linked scientific experiments demanding problem solving skills, questioning and authentic real world learning for all specialist science classes which will be…

Moorak’s More Than Meets the Eye Science Night

Moorak Primary School are holding a Science Night full of interactive and hands-on science tasks that link with the 2022 theme of Glass: more than meets the eye. They will be setting up different stations that all link to the different STEM areas, including: science experiement demonstrations making electrical circuits with an electric pen problem…

Indigenous Science Experience at Redfern

What can Aboriginal astronomy tell us about the night sky? How is our native flora used in bush medicine? How do Indigenous Australians make axes from stone? What can we learn about sustainable living from 60,000+ years of Indigenous culture? Find out the answers to these questions and more at the Indigenous Science Experience. This…

SOUND & VISION: Sci-Art on Ocean & Ice

Don’t miss these free online sci-art experiences to dive, sketch, explore, quiz, and Q&A with our expert presenters pondering the sounds and visions of our oceans. The Sound of Colour Join NASA Oceanographer Ryan Vandermeulen for this one hour presentation with quiz and Q&A. Scientific data analysis is often exclusively visual components, and this is…

Year 4 Science Expo

During science week year four students from our school will be presenting different science experiments to the school.  They will be performing the experiment and explaining the science behind it.  Each group will present their science to the lower school on one day and then to the rest of the school another day.

Glass – More than Meets the Eye: An Aboriginal Perspective

Christian Aboriginal Parent-Direct School (CAPS) Coolgardie will look at the history of glass and how it has influenced advancements in technology and some of its industrial applications today. We will explore how it may be utilized in future technologies. The project will be a whole school approach where the other departments will prepare their own…

ADM STEM in Defence Summit

Now in its fourth year, the ADM STEM in Defence Summit is a cornerstone event that brings together Defence, defence industry and education to discuss the future of the Defence workforce. What the Defence Force will look like in the future and how industry, education and Defence work together to achieve this is the core…