Identify questions and problems that can be investigated scientifically and make predictions based on scientific knowledge

This ASSIST CLE helps teach Year 7s astronomy concepts.

The resource is an ASSIST Connected Learning Experience (CLE) aimed at helping teach Year 7s astronomy concepts using the example of Earth's moon.

This online resource examines the effect of weight on friction.

The resource gives instructions for a hands-on activity where students can determine if weight affects friction when objects are slid across flat surfaces.

The instructions also give hints on how to lead students in the design and the conducting of the experiments.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U04 (Year 7)

This online resource examines friction.

The resource contains step-by-step instructions for an activity that examines the friction involved in dragging an object across a table top or floor.

Teacher background notes, student worksheets and sample data are also provided.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U04 (Year 7)

This online resource helps develop skills for science investigations.

The resource is a general unit of work suitable for all years of high school that can be used to help students develop the skills necessary to complete their own open-ended science investigations.

These skills are directly related to the Science Inquiry Skills found in the Australian Curriculum: Science and supports the CSIRO CREativity in Science and Technology (CREST) program.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U04 (Year 7)

This online resource covers Year 7 Earth and space science.

The resource is an inquiry-based learning sequence that includes: hands-on activities, digital interactives, animations and videos.

The resource covers renewable and non-renewable resources, recycling, sustainability and ecological footprint, astronomy, gravity, orbits, weight and mass, telescopes and rockets.

Students also learn how to develop justifiable claims based on evidence and assess the likely impacts of new technologies.

This online resource deals with the web of life.

The resource is a Science by Doing online resource that covers ecosystems, food chains and webs, scientific classification, ecosystem management and sustainability.

This resource is an inquiry-based learning sequence of hands-on activities, digital interactives, animations and videos. Students can experience scientific fieldwork and learn how to develop a scientific argument.

Teacher guide, activity sheets and assessment items are available.

This online resource helps develop a teacher's overall pedagogy.

The resource, The BitL tool – Bringing it to life tool, is an interactive webpage developed by SA Teaching and Learning Services (DECD) and has science as one of its learning areas.

The Bringing it to Life (BitL) online tool demonstrates high-challenge pedagogy through a series of questions that support students as both thinkers and problem solvers.

This online resource looks at the effect of mass on gravity.

The resource is a short video from the ABC television show Catalyst about the effect of gravity on two objects of different mass and the popular misconceptions about this phenomenon.

The video shows interviews with various people who are shown a 5kg medicine ball and an ordinary basketball of the same size, but much lighter. They are asked which one will hit the ground first when dropped at the same time.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U04 (Year 7)

This online resource investigates the gravity tower at Gingin near Perth.

The resource is a video from the ABC television show Catalyst and shows several objects being dropped from the 45 m high tower and their acceleration due to gravity is compared.

It also demonstrates that an object with a chain attached, like a bungee cord, can actually accelerate faster than gravity. This is then compared to the cracking of a whip where the whipping motion accelerates the end of the whip to a speed faster than the speed of sound.

This online resource looks at renewable and non-renewable resources.

The resource is a teaching package that provides hands-on activities, with teacher support materials, to support the Year 7 Earth and space science and chemical sciences components of the Australian Curriculum.

The activities are organised into three topics:

1. Renewable and non-renewable resources,
2. Water as A renewable resource, and
3. Oil and gas as non-renewable resources

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U05 (Year 7), AC9S7U06 (Year 7)