SPIRIT (SPICE Physics ICRAR Remote Internet Telescope) provides WA school students with access to a state‐of‐the-art robotic telescope via the Internet.
The Cane toad app for iOS, developed by SPICE and the Department of Environment and Conservation, was today launched by the Honourable Albert Jacob, MLA, Minister for Environment and Heritage.
The app can be downloaded for free from the app store. See the UWA press release here.
photo: Paul Ricketts… Continue reading
The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s current exhibition showcases the work of Ronald and Catherine Berndt while they travelled to Papua New Guinea in 1951.
Michael Alpers shares his experiences of the changes that took place in the South Fore villages (Papua New Guinea) in an insightful talk at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 24 May 2013.
In the 1960s, Michael Alpers (John Curtin Distinguished Professor of International Health, Curtin University) spent time in the South Fore villages, located in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, while conducting medical field studies.… Continue reading
Can you tell the difference between a juvenile cane toad and a bumpy rocket frog?
This app, now available from the app store, has been developed to help people distinguish between cane toads and native frogs. It has been a collaboration between the SPICE program at UWA and the Department of Environment and Conservation in Western Australia.… Continue reading
Mehmet Alpasian, PhD student at ICRAR studying optical and near-infrared galaxy filaments in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey, will be joining the Travelling Scientist program this year.
He is seen here lending a hand to students using a solar telescope at Carnamah District High School on the Aspire to Astronomy tour to the Murchison with ICRAR, Aspire UWA, UWA School of Indigenous Studies, Scitech and SPICE.… Continue reading
SPICE will take to the stage when the 13th annual three day Scitech Science Awareness Festival visits Kalgoorlie.
Curriculum Consultant Jenny Gull will run workshops on some of the new SPICE resources, including Soft drink science, Forces and Cyclones, while Travelling Scientist Ryan Kempster does his best to answer questions from local students.
The festival runs from Thursday 4 – Saturday 6 April, 2013, at Kalgoorlie Town Hall.… Continue reading
A wide range of professional learning workshops for teachers of year 7 science are now available. All registrations can be made from the SPICE Events page.
SPICE workshops for year 7 science teachers offer you an opportunity to explore resources that have been specifically developed for the Australian Curriculum (Science). Workshops are a mix of practical activities, investigations of SPICE resources and, where appropriate, talks by UWA experts.… Continue reading
SPICE will be on the road in the Mid West later this month, in conjunction with Aspire to Astronomy in the Murchison.
SPICE operates the two SPIRIT telescopes and has several curriculum resources that use astronomy as a context.
Contact us if you would like to know more about the SPIRIT initiative or use of SPICE curriculum resources.… Continue reading
This sequence looks at feeding relationships in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and how they may be represented through food chains and food webs. Impacts of introduced species, specifically cane toads, are also examined.
The sequence contains six resources: Animal interactions, Predators and prey, Food webs, Impact of cane toads, Managing cane toads and Kimberley creations.… Continue reading
Students use data about tropical cyclones to raise questions, find patterns and make predictions about their occurrence. Potential impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones are raised.
The sequence contains four resources: Looking at cyclones; Exploring tropical cyclones; Predicting tropical cyclones; and Modelling climate.
Several SPICE videos are now available on YouTube, and more are being added.
The first video to be uploaded, Adaptations in action, has now passed 30,000 downloads. Most views (almost half) are from USA, with UK coming in at number two and Australia in third place. It’s good to see Australian resources getting a wide international exposure.
The SPICE YouTube channel is located at http://www.youtube.com/spiceuwa… Continue reading
