Come along to the end-of-year event of Hawke’s Bay Branch of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, kicking off with nibbles and drinks at 5:30 pm, followed by a talk from Jinice Bautista-Lack, Doctor of Audiology.
Jinice will discuss the changes in the human brain that accompany hearing loss, as well as the positive outcomes of managing hearing loss through amplification. She will also present statistics on hearing loss in New Zealand, with a focus on one of the country’s most common causes: excessive noise.
About the speaker
Jinice has been practising as a clinical audiologist since 2013, with nine years of experience in New Zealand. She holds a Master’s in Clinical Audiology from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines and a Doctor of Audiology Degree from Salus University in the USA. Jinice is a full member of the New Zealand Audiological Society, where she volunteers as a Certificate of Clinical Competence Support Person and serves as an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) examiner. She currently works at Specsavers, where she continues to apply her expertise in audiology.
Register now and join an evening of learning, networking and enjoyment.
Venue: Hawke’s Bay Holt Planetarium, Chambers Street, Te Awa, Napier
For more information: https://hawkesbay.rsnzbranch.org.nz
Related content
Use the Science Learning Hub resources to discover more:
- Human hearing – focusing on the function of the ear structure.
- Hearing sound – find out about the three components required for sound to be heard.
- Helping you to hear better – technologies helping people with hearing loss
- Sounds of Aotearoa – use this recorded webinar to explore simple, practical and fun ideas for engaging students in the science of sound.
Browse the wide range of resources under our sound topic for even more.
We’ve made a partial replication of Building Science Concepts Book 18 Exploring Sound: Using Sound-makers and Musical Instruments. This article and interactive explore the big ideas and science concepts for Physical World levels 1 and 2.
Sound – lower primary is a collection of resources and notes for educators. You are welcome to copy the collection to your own profile, where you can edit and curate additional resources. The article Creating collections tells you how to get the most out of a collection.
Activity ideas
We have lots of activities covering sound and hearing, below are a few to explore these topics further with:
- Sound detectives – students take part in a class experiment to locate sounds when blindfolded.
- Modelling waves with slinkies – students model how sound travels by sending waves along two stretched plastic slinkies tied together.
- Investigating sound – simple exploratory activities and questions to experience and build an understanding of sound.
- Hearing sounds – using whispers and vibrations to hear and experience how sound moves.
- Musical sounds – experience how striking, blowing, plucking and scraping create sounds and how these sounds can come together to make music.
- Investigating movement and sound with a pūrerehua – create and use a Māori musical instrument.
