POWERFUL PLANTS

Powerful Plants is a new and exciting education program focused on communicating our centre's research in new exciting and novel ways to school groups.

Our aim is to engage talented students from primary and secondary schools around Australia in scientific research on plants through new, exciting and inspriational hands on activities whilst also providing a forum for them to communicate with each other.

Powerful Plants Program is a free of charge educational program running in a number of primary schools and secondary schools in Western Australia, Canberra and Sydney.

Due to staffing changes we will be revising the Powerful Plants Workshops on offer and will make an announcement by Term 2 2010.

 

PRIMARY SCHOOLS

There are workshops available to Powerful Plants primary schools in Western Australia. (One workshop available in Sydney and Canberra)

2010 Powerful Plants Workshops to be announced

Powerful Plants (Primary) is a free of charge incursion that brings the best of “hands on” plant science and basic biology experiments to the fingertips of primary school students

with a twist of FUN!

 

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

 

We come out of the laboratories to bring the science to you! These workshops are free of charge incursions that are designed to bring the best of hands-on biotechnology and plant science experiments and research examples to the fingertips of secondary school students. Each workshop gives teachers and students the opportunity to extend their knowledge of cutting edge research and applications of biotechnology techniques such as electrophoresis and PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) in plant sciences and genetic research.

2010 Powerful Plants Workshops to be announced


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Workshop News:

Get into Genes: get into genes

 

The Get into Genes workshop has been developed by Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics and Molecular Plant Breeding CRC and is now proudly presented in Western Australian schools by Plant Energy Biology.

Get into Genes provides students with an insight into the relationship between molecular biology, genetics and plant breeding.