National Science Week Webinars

Aimed for years 3-6. 60-minute duration. 

Explore under the sea and in the sky with us this National Science Week! We’ll guide participants through experiments using simple materials, while collecting their hypotheses and ideas through interactive polls and Q&A functions. 

Foldable Flight 

Learn how to design two different types of paper planes, darts and gliders, and how various design features such as wing size shape and angle, can affect stability and drag. 

Under the Sea:Coral Reef 

Share some of your favourite reef creatures and make a coral polyp to add to your own ‘reef’. Learn about some of the conditions corals need to survive, and what happens when those conditions change. Become an ocean engineer by testing different materials and thinking how they might be used to build tools for scientists to study the underwater environment. 

Linked below is a teacher resource guide that outlines the key concepts covered in the webinars, as well as some simple classroom activities for your class to follow along with during the webinar and be extended to support existing lesson plans.

Our webinars have live-captioning available.

• These hands-on webinars are aimed at primary school students (years 3-6) and run for 1 hour
• Free, registration is required to access the event
• Online only
• These are LIVE webinars, broadcast on Zoom
• Any questions? Contact: digitaloutreach@questacon.edu.au 

Each topic comes with a teacher resource with an overview of the webinar session to help get your class ready, as well as extra activities you can do to keep exploring science in your classroom!