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Teaching the beauty, power and usefulness of maths

Associate Professor Steve Sugden uses innovative ways to teach students maths as part of our STEM Professionals in Schools program.

Carol and Kate holding a pack of the plant pest playing cards that they designed with the students. Part of their teacher and entomologist classroom collaboration

Growing the next generation of environmental scientists

A classroom collaboration is teaching Australian school children about sustainability and growing our future environmental scientists.

Exterior view of children playing with soap bubbles

Online STEM activities for your school holidays

We've pulled together some excellent online STEM activities and resources for you to enjoy these school holidays.

Four panel members looking into the screen.

Virtual stars: Indigenous Astronomy Panel celebrates Alana Dooley

A special virtual Indigenous Astronomy Panel recently took place, inspired by Indigenous STEM Award winner Alana Doohley.

Students completing the Bebras Challenge in the classroom.

Students beaver away on solutions during Bebras Challenge

We’re inviting teachers to register their class for the upcoming Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.

How do you get a job in space without leaving your home planet?

Australia has always contributed to wider space research, and we haven’t left the atmosphere to do so. See how you could work in the space sector.

Kids raid caves in virtual classroom

We're using the 3D maps of the Jenolan Caves, to create an interactive game for students to explore a virtual representation of the would famous site.

A two-sided planisphere.

The Sky in Your Hand

Working in astronomy education and outreach I’m often asked by people to recommend an app or piece of software for […]

Students Served Science on NASA Dishes

Year 7-9 ‘space explorers’ from Melrose High School in the ACT became the first students in Australia to perform ‘real […]

An example of a Radio Galaxy Zoo composite image showing the radio jets as contours with a central core galaxy in infrared.

Radio Galaxy Zoo – Help Hunt Down Supermassive Black Holes

Lurking at the core of most galaxies, supermassive black holes sometimes give themselves away through huge jets of radio emission […]

Science meets the circus

By day, Jasmine is the editor of our Double Helix magazines and e-newsletters. By night, she swaps her writing tools […]

Getting virtual at ‘The Dish’

Have you ever wanted to stand on the surface of the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope? Well now you can (well […]