Ever wondered how Australian animals survive a wide range of environments? From the harsh conditions of the desert to the cool depths of the ocean – our native animals have become well adapted to life in Australia.
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Enjoy working as a palaeontologist - dig up the past and enter the age of dinosaurs! Discover how fossils are used to inform us how dinosaurs survived and adapted for over 170 million years.
Put on your lab coat and become a scientist as you explore physical and chemical changes and solve the mystery substance challenges.
Work as an analytical chemist in monitoring water quality. Use gravimetric analysis, UV-Vis Spectroscopy and Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) to analyze water.
Embark on an epic construction and coding adventure as you create a Lego EV3 Sumobot, ready to outsmart and overpower your opponent in a sumo showdown!
The landscape of Earth has been formed over millions of years and is under constant change. Some of those changes occur so slowly that you might not even know it is even happening!
Explore the power of earthquakes working as an engineer, seismologist, and geologist. Will you be able to escape the quake?
We use energy every day to make life easier, from boiling the kettle to turning on the lights and travelling to school or work. Explore energy systems and their impact on our environment.
Investigate the role of fire in Woowookarung Regional Park. Head out into the field and gather real time data on the impacts of fire and help build the ESRI database using GIS mapping.
Fly off into the distance as we take a brief journey through the history and science of flight.
Nothing captures our imagination more than the dinosaurs that once ruled our planet. Become a palaeontologist for a day as we discover the secrets of past life on Earth.
Do you have what it takes to design the future of humanity on Mars? Learn skills to design a space hub for life on the Red Planet using SketchUp then visualise your design with Augmented Reality (AR) technology.
Let’s hit the road as we take a journey to explore some of the most famous man-made wonders of the world.
Create and apply visual coding to generate mathematical solutions.
What is plate tectonic theory and what implications does it have for planet Earth?
Australia is one of the most energy hungry nations in the world – what are the ongoing effects of our energy generation and energy consumption? What will our future energy look like?
Who left all this rubbish here?! It will take no time to clean with Dash! Can you help drive dash to clean up the rubbish?
Rocks tell the story of Earth’s history. Become a Geologist and investigate how time shapes and transforms the ever changing landscape in which we live.
Reach to the moon and back in this exciting outreach program! Students will have a blast using 21st century problem solving and collaborative skills to design, engineer and launch their very own bottle rocket.
From powering smart phones to brushing our teeth, almost everything we use is a mineral resource, but do you know where they come from and how we get them?
Bop along with the Jazz Fly as we strike, shake, blow and scrap our journey through the science of sound.
Explore and develop knowledge of visual coding and robotics as they navigate through a dinosaur park.
Curiosity and wanting to make sense of the world around us come naturally to young kids. The STEM Academy program offers students the opportunity to explore the world through a STEM-based lens.
Dive into one of our most precious resources as we wade through the wonderful world of water.
