Science Week 2018
The school theme for National Science Week in 2018 is Game Changers and Change Makers.
This could refer to individuals, teams, technologies or ideas – what does it suggest to you?
In developing the theme and the teaching resource book we took inspiration from three significant celebrations in 2018:
- 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (genetic engineering, biotechnologies, prosthetics, bionics, genetic modification, brain enhancement and ethics);
- 40th anniversary of the birth of the first IVF baby (genetic engineering, biotechnology, nanotechnology);
- International Year of the Reef (coral reefs and the scientists who study them.
Get Involved
There are a variety of ways you can get your students, class, year level, school and community involved in National Science Week.
Your participation can be as simple as a display in the school library, or as complex as a whole-school science fair. A National Science Week event should:
- be fun for the participants
- be focused on quality science outcomes
- be supportive of your science curriculum
- encourage the participants to want to try more science
- raise the general profile of science within the community.
A poster and other information about Science Week is posted to every preschool, primary school, high school and TAFE in Australia each year, usually around the start of Term 2.
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