We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
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Brain Break – Hillarys Primary Schoool
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Luminary Lectures at the Library: How to keep the Great Barrier Reef great
As the largest coral reef system on earth, the Great Barrier Reef remains one of the great wonders of the World. Professor Peter Mumby will share his research into the creatures that inhabit the reef and discuss the impacts of climate change. Learn some of the ways in which we can help the Great Barrier…
Gold Coast Libraries – Explore your world and climate science with Professor Tim Flannery
Learn all kinds of weird, wild and amazing facts about animals from Professor Tim Flannery’s recent book, Explore your world : weird, wild, amazing! He will also talk about climate change and ways that we can help protect the world, our oceans and all of the marine animals that we love so much. This special…
Brain Break – Central Coast Libraries
We’re hosting a Brain Break morning tea with scrumptious morsels of science goodness to celebrate science achievement and endeavour. We’ll be getting together to share fun science quizzes, activities and demonstrations over our cuppa. This morning tea is just for us, but you can register to host one for FREE in your own workplace.
Luminary Lectures at the Library – Whales in the City: Humpback whale resting and calving on the Gold Coast
Humpback whales face many challenges during their migration. The Gold Coast bay is one of the few resting, socialising and emerging calving grounds for humpback whales. Humpbacks and High-rises is a community based not-for profit organisation established in 2011. They have monitored humpback whales for almost 10 years and now run South East Queensland’s largest…
Gold Coast Libraries – Sea World Rescue Animal video diary
Catch up with the Sea World Research and Rescue team, including some of the rescued animals, to learn more about how they assist marine animals that need our help. This event is part of the Gold Coast Libraries ‘Science of the Sea’ program. Don’t forget to explore our recommended National Science Week reading lists for…
Paradoxical Objects: online project at MOD.
Have you ever stopped to contemplate the objects around you? From clothes you wear, the cutlery you eat with, to the device you’re reading this on – our everyday objects slice through time to the origins of our universe, emerge from all continents across our globe, and are extracted, manufactured and transported by many human…
Gold Coast Libraries – Rocky Shore Explore
Our marine biologists from Ocean Connect will introduce you to some of the weird and wonderful creatures living amongst the rocks surrounding Burleigh Headland. You will be able to meet and greet without getting wet feet! There will be a chance to ask questions about anything marine science. Don’t forget to borrow your copy of…
SEVEN SIBLINGS FROM THE FUTURE: Exhibition at MOD.
The year is 2050. In southern Australia there is a plot of land known as Eucalara. Eucalara is already feeling the impact of climate change. Climate refugees started arriving decades ago, invasive species are on the move, and water is an increasingly precious resource. Amongst all this are seven siblings. The siblings have inherited this…