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Aussie Animal Scavenger Hunt

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Team Name


Fellowship Rocketship Milksteak Convoke


Team Members


4 members with unpublished profiles.

Project Description


Aussie Animal Scavenger Hunt (AASH) is an educational product that will have kids learning an Indigenous language while adventuring outdoors searching for animals.




Scavenger Guides (such as teachers, parents or carers) can use our website to print out Animal Scavenger Hunt Maps for their local area. The Scavenger Guide also has a local Indigenous language dictionary with all the animals they can expect to find.





The scavenger hunt will begin with a language lesson to learn Indigenous animal names. Then, kids can then take their maps out into the field and check off each animal they find as well as writing the traditional Aboriginal name in the blank field provided.


Data Story


We are using the Gold Coast region as a case study to create a prototype product. The indigenous language dictionary has been sourced from the Yugambeh Museum. Fauna sightings and pathways data has been sourced from the Gold Coast City Council.




The Fauna sightings dataset has been transformed by merging in the Yugambeh Indigenous language dictionary. Our new dataset includes both the common and Yugambeh names for each animal.





Topographic basemaps have been sourced from QSpatial, the Queensland Government open spatial data portal.





After placing both the Gold Coast pathways and the transformed Gold Coast fauna sightings onto the map we discovered that these two datasets combined could provide further use outside the scavenger hunt. For example, another use we envisioned would be assisting hikers and bike riders in their awareness about what animals they might encounter on their journey .


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Team DataSets

Queensland topographic map web service

Description of Use We used the QTopo map service as base maps in our Aussie Animal Scavenger Hunt maps.

Data Set

THE MODERN YUGAMBEH LANGUAGE DICTIONARY – 1st Edition

Description of Use The language dictionary was used to translate common Australian fauna names into the Yugambeh language.

Data Set

Pathways

Description of Use The Gold Coast pathways were included in our Aussie Animal Scavenger Hunt maps to suggest walking routes.

Data Set

Gold Coast City Council Flora and Fauna

Description of Use We extracted Gold Coast fauna sightings data to use in our Aussie Animal Scavenger Hunt maps. This data was joined to the Yugambeh language dictionary.

Data Set

Challenge Entries

Best use of Gold Coast Data

Best use of Gold Coast Data

Go to Challenge | 13 teams have entered this challenge.

Healthy Communities Challenge

How might we assist councils to build healthier and stronger communities?

Go to Challenge | 49 teams have entered this challenge.

Indigenous Language for Youth

How can we work with Indigenous communities promoting languages and culture in a fun, engaging and playful way while being respectful to the culture?

Go to Challenge | 3 teams have entered this challenge.