FUN TOPIC TO EXPLORE
SCIENCE at St Margaret Mary’s College is a very broad subject and it is very interesting to explore.
There are so many different topics that we look into. We study astronomy, exploring planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and comets, marine biology, which looks into marine life and organisms in the sea.
We also study physics, the natural science that studies matter, its motion and behaviour through space and time, and chemistry, the study of elements and compounds, and their interactions.
There’s so much to learn about. At St Margaret Mary’s College we make the most of our Science Week because it only occurs once a year.
This year the theme is Deep Blue: innovation for the future of our oceans, which investigates fish, pollution, fishing, renewable energy, climate change and much more.
It also enables students and teachers to discover and look into Australia’s world-renowned contributions to marine science, marine based industries, marine technologies, and marine innovations.
The Australian oceans are very valuable because they are used in so many ways to help Australians.
For National Science Week 2020, students and teachers at SMMC have been organising science trivia, science demonstrations, Scinema;
International science Film Festival afternoon, a science Olympics and many more activities for everyone to make the most of this year’s Science Week.
Year 9 students will also assist in hosting some visiting Year 5 students from Holy Spirit School coming to SMMC for some
Science Week activities.
Towards the end of Term 2 and into Term 3, a class of Year 7 students at SMMC were asked to assist a Year 10 art class with an art display project which is planned to be shown at the Strand Ephemera.
The purpose of the art display was to show the audience the biodiversity of marine life in the Great Barrier Reef. The Year 7s were required to choose a fish that lived in the Great Barrier
Reef, research that fish and present interesting facts about it.
Some of the chosen fish included starfish, coral trout, parrot fish, jellyfish, puffer fish and many more. The Year 10s are required to pick one of the fish and make it out of clay.
After this, a group of Year 7s were asked to create QR codes to stick onto each fish.
This would allow the audience to use a QR code scanner and it would take them to a website with information about that particular fish.
The students at St Margaret Mary’s College are excited about what lies in store for Science Week.