Deadline: 21-Oct-22
The DeadlyScience and Toyota Community Trust have an exciting project that will provide high-quality STEM learning resources including weather stations and resources to selected remote and very remote schools and all over Australia.
The DeadlyWeather project aims to foster engagement in STEM and support the development of STEM skills in students in remote and very remote schools across Australia. The program will involve deep cross pollination between Indigenous and non- Indigenous weather and climate knowledge, and link remote students and teachers with top-tier scientists and their research to provide them with real time data science and skills
The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:
- Engagement: Celebrating STEM knowledge and the enjoyment of science.
- Education: Developing a stronger scientific literacy especially with respect to weather and climate.
- Enrolment: Intentions of students to choose STEM subjects in further years. Intention of student to investigate STEM concepts and knowledge further outside of class.
- Employment: Awareness and opportunity of careers in STEM.
How the DeadlyWeather collaboration works?
Successful applicants will need to:
- Gather and record data from the weather station for two school terms and share this data with the DeadlyScience team;
- Perform basic maintenance of the weather station, noting at the end of the project the weather station remains the property of the school;
- Share publicly releasable photos and stories of how the weather station and supporting equipment is being used. If possible share words (or sentences) in language about weather and the seasons, and season cycle charts; and
- Complete a short report on the outcomes of the weather station activities.
What DeadlyScience will provide?
DeadlyScience will take the first steps to establish a network of educational weather stations across remote communities by providing resources in the field of climate and weather sciences. These resources will include:
- Weather station
- Video conferencing sessions with climate experts and DeadlyScience staff
- Class set of lab coats and goggles
- Microscopes
- DeadlyScience t-shirts
- DeadlyScience Australian Geographic books.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply you must:
- Be a government or non-government school;
- Have current public liability insurance cover; and
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Either:
- Have an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student population of more that 15% of the total student population; or
- Be classified as a rural, remote or very remote school according to MySchool.
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For more information, visit https://deadlyscience.org.au/programs/deadlyweather/