The Penrith Lakes Environmental Education Centre can bring the science to your school by offering the Renewable Energy Education Projects Trailer and one trained teacher to educate Stage 3 primary students on sustainable energy. The program allows students to learn about energy and perform a first-hand investigation using various equipment and data collection methods to…
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The Great Australian Biodiversity Challenge and other nature events
Calling all citizen scientists, mobile gamers and lovers of the outdoors! Your quest, should you choose to accept it, is to find and identify as many wild animals, plants and other living things as you can throughout National Science Week until 20 August. The Great Australian Biodiversity Challenge is open to players of all ages,…
Young Australians present their Plan for the Planet
This morning’s national launch event was also attended by 27 student and 12 teacher representatives of the inaugural Young Australians’ Plan for the Planet, who were in Canberra as part of the It’s our Future Earth conference. The students had traveled from all states and territories to participate, many supported by sponsorship grants from the…
read4Nature (farm books) @ Dimboola Library
Recent Read4Nature workshops held in local libraries lead to local NSWk events, when participants will share chosen farm picture books with a small group of children, to unlock the science in the pictures about living things on farms/gardens and do activities to help inspire a love of nature.
National Science Week Means a Croc Trip for Australia Zoo
Every August I look forward to the buzz surrounding National Science Week, and if you are reading this you must be someone who gets excited by science too! August is also exciting for us here at Australia Zoo for another reason, as it is the month that various members of the Zoo crew head up…
New Speakers for The Indigenous Science Experience @ The Australian Museum
The Indigenous Science Experience @ the Australian Musem is proud to announce that the following group will be presenting at our Friday the 10th event at the Australian Museum. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the process behind the creation of this acclaimed plan of management in a sensitive and culturally important landscape….
SCINEMA @ Your Place
Free in your school, library, town hall, gallery or museum, SCINEMA is a film festival staged nationally to celebrate National Science Week. Screen DVDs from national film festival SCINEMA films at a location to suit – this is a really simple way to celebrate National Science Week! Check the website for the full list of films….