SPIRIT Internet Telescope

SPIRIT (SPICE Physics ICRAR Remote Internet Telescope) provides WA school students with access to a state‐of‐the-art robotic telescope via the Internet.

Through the Kunai Grass: Portraits of the New Guinea Highlands

CATEGORY: News

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

Cane toad app

CATEGORY: K-10 Biology, News

Can you tell the difference between a juvenile cane toad and a bumpy rocket frog?

Target Audience: Year 7 Biology and general public

This app, which will be available soon 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

Sun-struck in Carnamah

CATEGORY: News, Travelling scientist

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

Goldfields Science Awareness Festival

CATEGORY: News, Travelling scientist

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

Year 7 science workshops

CATEGORY: News, Professional learning

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

Astronomy with SPICE

CATEGORY: News

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.

Links

Contact us if you would like to know more about the SPIRIT initiative or use of SPICE curriculum resources.… Continue reading

Feeding relationships

CATEGORY: K-10 Biology, News

Target audience: Year 7 biology

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

Cyclones

CATEGORY: K-10 Earth and space, News

Target audience: Year 10 science

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.

Sample material

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SPICE videos on YouTube

CATEGORY: News

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

Adaptations

CATEGORY: News, Year 11/12 Biology, Year 11/12 Human biology

 

Target audience: year 11/12 biology/human biology

This collection of resources examines structural, behavioural and physiological adaptations shown by plants and animals in a various environments.

This sequence contains six resources: Defining adaptations; Emperor penguins; Barrow Island marsupials; Samphires; Diving adaptations; and Freediving.

Sample materials

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