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…
Topic: Innovation and Technology
‘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…
See Inside Canberra’s One and Only Insect Farm – the future of waste management and protein production
As part of National Science Week and Served With a Side of Science: A Canberra Food Festival, we will open our doors on Saturday 14 August – with tours at 12pm, 1.15pm and 2.30pm. You will see how Goterra’s modular, automated waste infrastructure manages maggots to consume food waste, converting it into sustainable protein and…
Beacy Does National Science Week
As the culmination of our week of events, including competitions, guest speakers, staff quizzes and a tabloid science day for P-6 students we will be creating a book about food, recipes and food fables from history.