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2012 National Science Week from 11-19 August: the First Nations science education program



Every year, for the past 15 years, Australia has celebrated science. This year National Science Week occurs from 11-19 August 2012.

One event, to be held in Sydney is a collaboration between Macquarie University, the Australian Museum, the Redfern Community Centre, and First Nations communities from all over Australia. Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences at Macquarie University, A/Professor Joanne Jamie, reported that the Indigenous Science Experience will provide an opportunity to learn from the Elders.

The Indigenous Science Education Program (ISEP) team will present a series of workshops, hands-on science activities, and seminars at the Australian Museum during National Science Week for school students, educators, scientists, and the general public.

On 10-11 August at the Australian Museum and on 12 August at the Redfern Centre, the ISEP highlights the interface between indigenous knowledge and culture and scientific research, digital media, and land management. The First Nations communities have a wealth of land management knowledge regarding plants and animals for tools, food, and medicine. These talks, seminars, and workshops will be presented by Elders, youth, and community members from communities across Australia involved in cooperative research, cultural transmission, and land management.

First Nations youth will also present practical workshops on astronomy in which the public can make a star wheel, and technology in which the public can construct a stone axe. First Nations youth will also be conducting hands-on science shows to explore chemistry of common household items (where the public can make slime and disappearing ink). There will also be a session on the microscopic world and the beauty of insects, where the public will be able to handle insects, such as the enormous stick insects.

For further information and bookings please contact David Harrington (phone 0434 916 778), or Joanne Packer (phone 02 9850 8309) of the Indigenous Science Education Program.

For other events during the National Science Week from 11-19 August see the Science Week website (http://www.scienceweek.net.au/).


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MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audits and evaluations, and the author  of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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