DeadlyScience Week

National Science Week is a big deal on the DeadlyScience annual calendar. It is a time to celebrate science, knowledge and stories; and while we celebrate science every week of the year this event is a great opportunity to integrate science into your classroom, school, early learning centre and community. For the last two years during Science Week we’ve released our own Teaching and Classroom Activity Guides, made possible by the support of Australia Post. The DeadlyScience Guides are developed around the annual National Science Week theme and are a practical and fun resource for educators of Foundation to Year 6.

National Science Week – What’s it all about?

National Science Week provides the opportunity for community participation in high profile science engagement activities across the nation. There are a number 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, a Brain Break quiz event or as complex as a whole-school science fair.

The school theme for National Science Week in 2023 is Innovation: Powering Future Industries. The theme incorporates the advancement in technology in all industries, especially using artificial intelligence (AI).

Check out the National Science Week website www.scienceweek.net.au for a range of events, resources and links to help you celebrate Science Week. You can also check out the DeadlyScience teacher guide and classroom activities below.

Educator Resources

In partnership with Australia Post, we have helped create a teacher guide and classroom activities which explore the annual National Science Week theme.

2023 Innovation: Powering Future Industries
This guide introduces a thorough understanding of renewable resources for a sustainable future from a First Nations perspective and is based on the Australian Geographic DeadlyScience title, ‘Renewable Resources’. Developed in partnership with Australia Post, DeadlyScience and Wingaru Education, this guide is curriculum aligned and strongly features the cross-curriculum property of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

Download the resource here

Click here for your own copy of DeadlyScience title, Renewable Resources.

 

2022 Glass: More Than Meets the Eye
This guide is based on the Australian Geographic DeadlyScience title, ‘Earth’s Changing Surfaces’. Developed in partnership with Australia Post and DeadlyScience, this guide is curriculum-aligned and each lesson reflects on our nation’s first scientists’ use of natural glass.

Download the resource here

Click here for your own copy of DeadlyScience title, Earth’s Changing Surfaces.