Science Week Celebration at St John’s School

St John’s National Science Week Celebration, including a showcase from the Canegrowers Tully. A whole day to celebrate science, involving students from Prep to Year 6 working in mixed aged groups. The day will involve a rotation of engaging, hands-on activities designed to promote critical and creative thinking about this year’s theme – Innovation: Powering…

Inventions and Innovations

Our focus for this year Investigate and Innovate links to the National Science Week theme of Innovation: Powering Future Industries. All students will participate in innovation-related activities during their science lessons e.g.exploring Google Quickdraw and Machine Learning for Kids. These hands-on activities will expose students to the scope and possibilities of technologies, especially artificial intelligence…

STEM Family Night – Engineering challenge

Welcome to our evening of challenge and science fun. You are warmly welcomed to join us at Baranduda Primary for our engineering challenges which are designed to encourage creative thinking, problem solving and out of the box thinking. Whether you work with a partner, are solo or parent vs child, come and enjoy the very…

A Wonderful Week of Water

A Week of Wonderful Water activities will take place during National Science Week and cater to students from Prep to Year 6. Activities encourage students to engage in STEM principles of designing, building and modifying to address real-life issues in our beautiful seaside school environment. Included in this are solar boat design, water testing and…

Build a Wind Turbine

Students in Year 6 are spending Term 3 focusing on Year.6.378 – We are learning to analyse requirements for the transfer of electricity and describe how energy can be transformed from one form to another when generating electricity. As part of this unit students will be testing blades on a windmill

School Solar Oven Challenge

In the lead up to National Science Week, all classes at Albuera Street Primary School will be researching how to create a solar oven, using a pizza box or similar. We will pick the sunniest day (it is Hobart in winter) in Science Week to have our challenge.  Each class will attempt to cook nachos…

On the Road with STEM Kids

Geraldton Community Toy Library are on the road with STEM Kids during National Science Week visiting three locations over three days to deliver exploratory play sessions targeting our future scientists, innovators, engineers and mathematicians. Children aged 3-8 and their families will discover how to ask questions, problem solve, experiment, hypothesis and evaluate with eight curated…

Lunchtime STEM club

This week we are introducing the lunchtime STEM club that will continue to run throughout the rest of the year. The club will run everyday during Science week and on Monday’s in the following weeks. A wide variety of activities will be undertaken such as mouse trap racers, designing and building solar panel run technology,…

Creative Computing for Seniors Workshop (using Scratch)

If you’re over 55 and inspired by creativity (and can use a computer keyboard and mouse) then this free workshop is for you. In a relaxed setting we’ll learn how to get started with Scratch, an incredible self-expression system that’s used by more than 90 million men and women worldwide and lets them produce amazing, colourful, musical, moving creations…