Wildflowers in the Sky
Astronomy for Mid West Schools

Project Outline

Wildflowers in the Sky is an educational project linking schools in the Mid West region of Western Australia with the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and other partner organisations to expand student understanding of astronomy. Students are engaged by hands-on activities and inquiry-based learning to observe the day and night sky using a range of technologies from the unaided eye through to remotely controlling telescopes via the internet. They actively collaborate with students in other schools and work with young scientists and educators from ATNF.

Wildflowers in the Sky
Credit: © Composite of photos by M. Bessell and R. Hollow
The Mid West region of Western Australia is world-renowned for its stunning wildflowers. It also has stunning night skies due to the lack of atmospheric and light pollution .

The Mid West region of WA is the site for next-generation radio telescopes being developed by Australian and international astronomers. These include MIRANdA and the MWA (MIRA Widefield Array). This site has also been proposed by Australia as the site for the SKA, the Square Kilometre Array, that would be the largest and most powerful and sensitive radio telescope in the world.

Partner Organisations

ASISTM projects require a collaboration of one or more non-school organisations with a cluster of several schools. All of our partner schools are located in the Mid West region of Western Australia but are separated by hundreds of kilometres.

Schools:

Other Partners

Other Links

Acknowledgements

Wildflowers in the Sky - Astronomy for Mid West Schools is a Round 2 ASISTM (Australian Schools Innovation in Science, Technology & Mathematics) project funded by the Australian Government through DEST. Additional support is provided by the various partner organisations and schools.

The material in this section has been written by Robert Hollow.

Education
Public