Classrooms in croc-filled billabongs; VR portal to Torres Strait Islander culture; burning lessons from Country

National Science Week

Great National Science Week Indigenous stories up for grabs now around Australia

  • Multimedia project captures 65,000+ years of Indigenous Knowledge through voices of elders, scientists and environmentalists – online
  • Remote school students use baited underwater cameras to explore croc-filled billabongs – Ramingining, NT
  • Burning lessons from County: virtual ‘fire lab’ tour with Melbourne researchers applying Indigenous practices – online
  • VR portal to Torres Strait Islander culture, Aboriginal astronomy, cultural use of seaweeds, science of sound and more at Indigenous Science Experience – Redfern, NSW
  • Weaving connections in textiles workshop – Adelaide, SA
  • Aboriginal science village and a life-sized Australovenator dinosaur at Science in the Scrub – Abbotsbury, NSW
  • How the birds got their colours: Dreamtime through circus and dance – Darwin, NT
  • Tech upskilling for citizen scientists with researchers and Indigenous rangers – in-person and online via Gold Coast, QLD
  • Jurassic wonders from earth to sky: First Nations Knowledge, palaeontology and astronomy – Bendigo, VIC
  • Deadly Science in a biomedical lab – Brisbane, QLD
  • Indigenous elders, rangers and locals join school students in boat building challenge using recycled and found materials – Wyndham and East Kimberley, WA
  • Cultural and ecological importance of cool burning and medicinal plant use – Magnetic Island, QLD
  • Planetarium show tells stories of Indigenous science, Songlines and stars – Wollongong, NSW
  • Australia’s Agricultural Identity – An Aboriginal Yarn: talk to proud Worimi man, author, entrepreneur and past Australian Geographic Young Conservationist of the Year Joshua Gilbert about his new book – Windale, NSW
  • Tuck into bush tucker and Indigenous plant and animal knowledge – Darwin, NT
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