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…
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Virtual tour of Great Southern Reef Marine Life – Seadragons
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…
Virtual tour of Great Southern Reef Marine Life – Weird and wonderful creatures
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…
Virtual tour of Great Southern Reef Marine Life – Giant Australian Cuttlefish
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…
How can we progress biomedical research without animal experiments? Examples from infectious disease research and ME/CFS.
Humane Research Australia (HRA) is a not-for-profit organisation devoted to the promotion of experimental and testing methods that replace the ongoing reliance upon animals as research models of human health and disease. There is an established history of resistance to animal experimentation based on ethical grounds, but more recently concerns have also appeared in relation…
Digital Kids SecuriDay
Kids SecuriDay is going digital delivery as part of National Science Week with a stack of fun security talks, workshops, competitions and games planned. We’re all about introducing youth to security, and its importance in their everyday lives. This event is for children (aged 6 to 16) and their parents/guardians. We aim to reach people…
Explore and Learn at Home
Eighty George Town families will be provided with a pack including everything you need to do five interesting, fun and engaging STEM activities at home. You will receive all the materials you need, including instruction cards that you can use again and again. Every day during National Science Week, George Town Library will post a…
Being a Lab Technician
Happy Explorers and Raspberry Rockets present how to make your own specimen analyzer at home and a discussion about what a specimen analyzer does. Lisa from Happy Explorers is a Lab Technician. She will discuss what her job entails and why it is so important. An online Instagram IGTV collaboration.
The Marine Team! Schools virtual incursion
The Marine Team! celebrates the National Science Week school theme, Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans, and explores marine science and innovation to achieve long-term sustainability of our oceans. The educational theatre sketch comedy is full of scientific facts and is captured live-online with multi-cameras and in high definition, so everyone watches from…
HMAS Strahan Boat Race
The HMAS Strahan boat race is a school run science event. Students from Strahan Primary School will be using their science, engineering, mathematics and problem solving skills to design and make a boat, to race. Throughout, this process students will be developing there knowledge of physical science, including movement, forces, material types and ideas surrounding sinking…