To celebrate this year’s National Science Week theme of Food: Different by Design, Brisbane Boys College STEM Club will be offering our Junior School students a smorgasbord of tasty activities. We would like our students to think of food not just as something that they eat but as an adventure of discovery. During the week…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
Home Solar-Battery Case Study
Australia has one of the highest rates of uptake of domestic photo-voltaic systems in the world and now the option of battery storage is transforming the way people can manage their own energy needs. Is a Home Solar-Battery system a good investment? This real life customer case study by David Howard from Clean Energy from…
Food Different by Design – Online class activity using Trello
Fast and easy activity for teachers to engage students of all ages in a STEM activity of approx. 45 minutes duration. Just download and copy the Trello template for all of the instructions. Students explore the UN Sustainable Development Goals and various food-related projects. Adjust this template as you need. Encourage students to: add checklists…
‘Fungal Futures’ – partnering with fungi for sustainable communities and healthy landscapes
Fungi play a crucial role in the ecosystem as decomposers, soil builders and nutrient cyclers. They also partner with at least 90% of plant species protecting them from disease, helping them to obtain nutrients and water and even communicate with other plants. Fungi are also an important food source for many animals. For humans they…
Food Glorious Food
Moil Primary School will host a fun Science Day for all students from Foundation to Year 6. Each activity will be fun, hands-on and will encourage students to work cooperatively with their peers to solve problems, complete activities and share their knowledge. The activities will embrace the National Science Week theme of Food: Different by…
Drone Demonstration at Austins Ferry Primary
The City of Hobart will be visiting the school to show us their new drone program and engage with students to show them how drones can be used in city development. Students will be able to see how the drone can be used to take photographs of the school. This data will be used in…
Beam Camp – Farm of the Future: Where will you Grow?
You will be sent into the future to help solve world food shortages. Your mission is to work as a team or independently to select the ideal location to set up your farm and decide what will be the best thing to grow/farm. Will you farm insects in the tropics, herd cattle in Antarctica, boldly…
STEM Fast Track ESTEAM Summit
ESTEAM Summit is a competition where the brightest young minds around the state come up with solutions to the world’s problems using entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, art (and design), and mathematics. The competition has two parts: Part 1 Students identify a problem in one or across several of the given topics (Space, Cyber Security, AI,…
RoboCoast Immersion Day at Bribie Island State High School
Robocoast would like to invite you to take part in an exciting opportunity to develop student and teacher’s skills in building and programming LEGO EV3, Spike Prime and mBot Ranger robots. On Monday 16 August, our award winning Sunshine Coast RoboCoast team will present an EV3, Spike Prime and mBot Ranger Beginner and Intermediate Robotics…
St. John Fisher School Online Escape Room Challenges
The school community will participate in online escape room activities where family members can cooperatively discover clues, solve puzzles, and complete tasks to progress through a series of challenges. The challenges selected draw on a number of disciplines including science, technology and mathematics. Each grade from Kindergarten to Year 6, will have the opportunity to…