May 2009
12 posts
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.
May 11th
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!
May 11th
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. Want to know more? Click HERE 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...
May 10th
MOUNTAIN PYGMY POSSUM
Click on me - before i camouflage myself!
May 9th
NRTH. CORROBOREE FROG
Click on me - before i jump away!
May 8th
SALTWATER CROCODILE
Click on me - before I chomp on your hand!
May 7th
GREY NURSE SHARK
Click on me - before I bite you!
May 6th
SQUARE TAILED KITE
Click on me - before I fly away!
May 5th
ADAPTATION
Click the photo to learn about Adaptation & Click HERE for something funny!
May 4th
EVOLUTION
We haven’t always looked like this. Many people think we were monkeys before we turned into cavemen. Animals have been evolving for millions of years to look the way they are now and just like us, they probably won’t stop there. Click HERE to learn more.
May 3rd
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...
May 2nd
GALLERY
Watch our flickr TUTORIAL Click the picture to be taken to our interactive Flickr Site! Click HERE to see some examples
May 1st
April 2009
3 posts
LINKS/INFO/REFERENCES
Want more? Or want to know how we know so much? This is the space - Click me!
Apr 30th
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
Apr 28th
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...
Apr 27th