body systems Archives - Education

25 Nov 2021

In Class With… Professor Fiona Wood

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: In Class With..., Biological Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

Get access to the biggest names and brightest minds in STEM with our In Class With… series. Inventor of spray-on-skin and world-leading burns specialist, Professor Fiona Wood took on questions from school students around Australia in this exclusive In Class … Continued

27 Aug 2021

Reversible fabric keeps you warm or cool on demand

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

The fabric with a neat party trick – wear it one way and it keeps you warm, but flip it inside out and it will keep you cool. This resource is best suited to Physics, Chemistry and Biology students in … Continued

25 Jun 2021

Future Now: Repairing the Human Body

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Biological Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

Future Now explores the latest innovations in science – from repairing the human body, to the past and future of dental care. The first episode of Future Now explores how we can repair the human body in incredible ways – like 3D … Continued

1 Jun 2021

Future Now: The Story of our Teeth

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

Future Now explores the latest innovations in science – from repairing the human body, to the past and future of dental care. This episode of Future Now takes a step back in time to look at how lucky we are today – our … Continued

17 May 2021

Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Biological Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome (or PCOS for short) is many things, but well understood is not one of them. To find out more about it, we touched base with Dr Kirsty Walters from UNSW who published her research that PCOS … Continued

9 Jul 2020

Working In… Health — Vaccination Researcher

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Biological Sciences, Careers In STEM, STEM In Action | 0

The Working In… series compiles a selection of fascinating STEM jobs in a multitude of fields. They are designed to highlight the variety of STEM careers available to students that they may not have considered, or been aware of before now. Find out … Continued

8 Jul 2020

This Show Is NOT Rubbish – Ep5: Weeeeeeeee!

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Chemical Sciences, Biological Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

The Trash Can Man is on a mission to turn TRASH into (scientific) TREASURE! Hidden inside every pile of refuse and rejectamenta are a billion different possibilities... This episode is a little gross. BUT, it's also really interesting. AND, there's … Continued

17 Apr 2020

Best of: Vaccination

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Biological Sciences, STEM In Action, Tools for Teachers | 0

Our best of series, published each week, collates our favourite and most popular resources for a particular topic. This week: Vaccinations for year 8 and 9 students studying Biological Sciences. Australian Curriculum Code: ACSSU150, ACSSU175 "Multi-cellular organisms contain systems of … Continued

26 Mar 2020

The Future of Artificial Intelligence

by Jennifer Chalmers | posted in: Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, STEM In Action | 0

The artificial intelligence future is inevitable, but what it looks like is up to human decisions – we need to make sure we get it right before we roll it out on a larger scale. Discuss the ethics of upcoming … Continued

30 Jan 2020

As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak reaches Australia, here’s what we know

by Hilary Jones | posted in: Biological Sciences, Asia and Australia's Engagement with Asia, STEM In Action | 0

[PLEASE NOTE: This is an article from the early stages of our understanding of Covid-19 and our knowledge and understanding has since been updated and refined since it was originally published] This is what we do and don’t know about … Continued