Welcome!
The Art Aptation website is an educational website that will teach you about Global warming and how it is affecting five endangered Australian animals. You will also learn about adpatation, Charles Darwin and evolution.
ArtAptation Project
Art+Adaptation = Aptation! A space where art and media combine to teach you about five endangered Australian animals and how they're adapting (or not) to global warming. How do YOU think they will evolve?
the ArtAptation class begins…
We asked a class of grade 4’s to help us think of ways in which our five endangered Australian animals could adapt and evolve in the future - and they came up with some great ideas!
We’d love you to draw some of your own ideas too and add them to our gallery space!
GLOBAL WARMING
Global warming is the increase of the Earth’s average tempearute and oceans since the mid-twentieth century, caused by harmful gases such as carbon dioxide.
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What do you think will happen to Australia if global warming continues?
Some effects of global warming are:
- we’ll get hotter summers, which are already very hot in Australia, that could cause bushfires like the ones that happened across Victoria recently, and also droughts
- we’ll have more extreme weather such as flooding & storms
- the timing of the seasons will be different so food sources and habitats are not ready for animals to live & eat in
- In Australia if temperatures rise more than 3 degrees all the snow will melt which will be terrible for many animals, especially those that live on top of mountains and in restricted areas such as islands.
- Because of global warming some animals are forced to migrate from their habitats which is not always possible as humans have cleared areas and built barriers, which prevent them from getting past.
Doesn’t seem too good does it? We created the ArtAptation Project as project to look at creative ways we, and the animals affected by global warming, can survive if this natural shift in weather were to continue down this path.
Who is CHARLES DARWIN?
He was an important writer & scientist who studied the behaviour & habitats of many animals to see how they were changing & living in their different environments. He noticed that many animals had evolved & changed their bodies over time so they could live longer & survive better.
This year is actually quite a special year for Darwin as it was his 200th birthday on the 12th of February and it will have been 150 years since he wrote his famous book, The Origin of the Species, which introduced the world to the theory of evolution!
acid poo? what would YOU do?
There were some crazy ideas being thrown around!
We’d like to know what you think - show us by drawing or tell us by commenting
About Us
Joseph, Janjer & Sofia are three final year media students at RMIT. This semester we were asked to create projects around the theme EVOLUTION in celebration of Charles Darwin’s 200th Anniversary.
As we were all interested in combining the areas of science,art & media we came up with the concept of creating an educational website based on five Australian animals, adaptation and global warming for children, with children, and were lucky enough to get a primary school on board to help us!
On completion of this project we will upload it the ABC Pool, “a social media project developed by ABC Radio National.”
