Energy transfer through different mediums can be explained using wave and particle models

This online resource supports the teaching of Year 9 Earth and space science.

The resource is a teaching package that provides a range of hands-on student activities and teacher support materials to help with the teaching of the Year 9 Earth and Physical Sciences components of the Australian Curriculum.

The activities are organised into four topics:

This online resource shows students how physics is used in medicine.

The resource allows students to examine results from PET and MRI scans, colonoscopies and radiotherapy on patients.

The aim of this exercise is for students to examine how physics can be used in everyday life.

Students work their way through each test, comparing results and diagnosing possible diseases.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U04 (Year 9)

This downloadable lesson deals with the transfer of heat.

This downloadable lesson plan contains student worksheets and teacher resources for an experiment that examines how effectively heat is transferred to ice—through a plastic or a metal block. Step-by-step teacher instructions are also given that address common student misconceptions.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S5U04 (Year 5), AC9S6U04 (Year 6), AC9S8U05 (Year 8)

A downloadable resource to help teach about variable resistors.

The resource is a student practical activity where students examine the properties of variable resistors by making one of their own.

In the activity, students create a variable resistor using a shaded-in 'box' drawn with a 'lead' pencil (graphite really) and use it in series with a Light Emitting Diode (LED) to control the amount of light emitted by the LED.

The document contains student instructions and questions to answer.

Teacher notes are provided on page 2 of the document.

This downloadable resource safely explores electrical short circuits.

The resource details a student practical activity that enables students to cause, and investigate the effects of, a short circuit in a low-power situation.

The students assemble a simple circuit consisting of a power supply and a light globe. They then temporarily short out the light globe and observe what happens.

The activity includes questions for students to answer.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S6U03 (Year 6), AC9S9U04 (Year 9)

This downloadable resource details a student activity for building a model fuse.

Students build a simple fuse out of cork, 2 pins and fuse wire and connect it to a light globe in a simple circuit. They then short out the globe and observe what happens to the fuse.

The resource includes questions for students to answer after conducting the activity.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U04 (Year 9)

This downloadable resource tests students' vocabulary about electricity

The resource is a crossword grid with clues that focus on key electricity terms.

An answer sheet is also available.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U04 (Year 9)

This PDF article is about photoluminescence.

The resource explains photoluminescence, which is created by the change of energy of electrons.

The article also suggests a series of questions that can be used by students to plan simple experiments using glow in the dark toys.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U06 (Year 9)

This online resource describes how photovoltaic cells work.

A video describes how the photovoltaic effect works in the doped semiconductors used to generate electricity in solar panels.

This resource would be good for advanced students or for teacher background information.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U06 (Year 9)