Science Education

Hello

My name is Julie Garbutt and I’m thrilled to be teaching science at St Raphael's. 

NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK

Right now, it’s National Science Week (from 14 - 22 August). National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology. The school theme this year is Food: Different by Design. It honours the United Nations International Year of Fruits and Vegetables and the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. Students will have opportunities to explore this theme on Wellbeing Wednesday 18th August. There are lots of ways you can get involved at home, like making popping candy cupcakes.

REMOTE LEARNING

During remote learning, students will have the opportunity to continue learning in their planned Term 3 units:

• Foundation – That’s my hat! addresses the scientific understanding that objects are made of materials that have observable properties
• Year 1 and 2 - Up, down and all around addresses the scientific understanding that observable changes occur in the sky and landscape
• Year 3 and 4 – Night and day addresses the scientific understanding that Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day
• Year 5 and 6 - Earth’s place in space addresses the scientific understanding that the Earth is part of a system of planets orbiting around a star (the sun).

SCIENCE AT HOME 

Here’s some other great ways to get involved in science at home:

Learn about and listen to Birdlife Australia’s Bird of the month: the Blue-winged Kookaburra

Vote for a candidate for Victoria’s fossil emblem. State emblems are a way of celebrating the unique and amazing natural heritage of our part of the world. Victoria has these emblems already: helmeted honeyeater (bird), Leadbeater's possum (animal), weedy seadragon (marine animal), common heath (flora) and gold (mineral), but does not yet have a fossil emblem.

Explore some of the many wonderful activities from Scienceworks.