Analyse patterns and trends in data, including describing relationships between variables and identifying inconsistencies

This online resource is a good demonstration of the transfer of energy.

The resource give details of a teacher demonstration on the energy transformations involved in a collision between a basketball and a tennis ball.

A tennis ball is positioned on top of a basketball and the two are dropped from a height. The tennis ball is spectacularly propelled high into the air when they collide with the floor.

The resource also gives a detailed explanation of what’s going on and how to take things further.

This online resource investigates Newton’s second law of motion.

The resource is a student practical activity. Students time how long it takes a dynamics trolley to travel a set distance along a runway under a given force.

The force is then doubled and the time re-measured. Mass is then doubled and the time re-measured.

Teaching notes are included and related experiments are also listed.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)

This downloadable document is a worksheet for calculating average speed.

The document is for a practical activity where students use a stopwatch, trundle wheel and a flag to record and calculate the average speed of vehicles over a distance.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)

This downloadable resource is useful for demonstrating velocity and acceleration vectors.

The resource, which can be either displayed in a web browser or downloaded as a standalone Java application, is a simulation that illustrates velocity and acceleration vectors as changing arrows as a ball is moved around a screen.

Linear motion, simple harmonic motion and circular motion are demonstrated. The velocity and acceleration arrows can be shown together, or one or both can be hidden to allow students to predict their directions.

This downloadable student activity investigates velocity and acceleration.

The resource is an MS Word document that details a practical activity that focuses on investigating constant velocity and accelerated motion using ticker timers and dynamics trolleys in the laboratory.

The resource can also be used as student worksheets for the activity.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)

This online resource looks at the transfer of energy.

The resource is a student activity that focuses on the energy conversions between GPE and KE when a ball bounces.

The investigation begins with a teacher demonstration and explanation then moves on to student investigations, dropping different balls from different heights.

Simple but effective.

.Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)

This online resource looks at natural selection.

The resource is a lesson plan for a practical activity or demonstration that also provides detailed teaching notes and a student worksheet.

The purpose of the lesson is:

• to review information about the peppered moth (Biston betularia), its two main colour forms and the places in which they are found; and
• to analyse and evaluate evidence for natural selection.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U02 (Year 10)

This online resource deals with transfer of energy in a pendulum.

The resource is a PDF of a student activity that focuses on the motion of a pendulum and the factors that affect the period of oscillation of a pendulum.

The resource also looks at the role of energy transformation and the law of conservation of energy.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)

A downloadable resource in which students determine a value for gravitational acceleration.

This downloadable resource is a worksheet for a practical activity where students determine a value for the acceleration due to gravity and then compare it to 9.8 ms^-2.

Students drop a ball from a height and measure the distance covered and time taken.

The worksheet details the necessary calculations.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)