Families Getting them interested in STEM

At home activities

There are plenty of fun DIY activities that can be done from home to encourage girls to become more interested in STEM. 

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Balloon Blowout

Balloons, bottles and an exciting reaction – blow up a balloon without using a single breath!

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Rainbow Lightning

Create lightning art through the powers of gravity and surface tension.

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Coin Battery

Create an electric current with currency!

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Colour Changing Christmas Tree

Why dream of a white Christmas when a colourful Christmas is a lot more fun? Create a Christmas tree that changes colour before your eyes, and explore how pH indicators work.

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Future Farmers: Australian Agriculture

Discover how some of our foods and drinks are produced.

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Bottle Accelerometer

Get up to speed with inertia by making this simple accelerometer!

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Fireworks in a bottle

Grab a friend and make your own liquid fireworks with this simple and safe alternative.

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Avalanche

What starts out as a cascade of well-mixed granular materials sorts itself into alternating layers of salt and sand.

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Fog chamber

Make a portable cloud in a bottle: Now you see it, now you don’t!

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Naked egg

Put de-shelled eggs in different fluids and watch them swell and shrink.

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Mould terrarium

Watch tiny blue, green, and white moulds grow on leftover food.

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Black magic

Discover the secret colours in a black marker!

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Paper airplanes

Build, test and improve paper airplanes.

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Rising Water Table

How can you help stop salt from destroying farmland? Learn about salinity and water tables in this simple desktop experiment!

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Leaning tower of pasta

Experiment with different structures to determine which ones can handle the biggest load.

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Protect that pill

Develop a pill coating that can withstand the acidic environment found in the stomach.

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How do things fall?

Find out what determines how quickly objects fall.

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Household energy audit

Review the electrical appliances used at home.

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Mobile forces

Create mobiles to explore the application of engineering principles.

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Unplugged activities

Computer science activities without a computer.

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Design a better vortex cannon

Build and test vortex cannons out of household materials.

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Barbie bungee

Design a bungee ride for Barbie.

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All spun up

Learn about properties of rotation.

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Barefoot

Enjoyable activities, designed by teaching professionals for families to do at home with their children.

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Household energy audit

Review the electrical appliances used at home.

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Stop the Pop

Once you pop, we’ll show you how to stop. Who will win in the battle between air, water and fire – and balloons?

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Oil and Water

Have you ever heard that oil and water don’t mix? Turn enemies into friends in this colourful experiment.

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