Multi-cellular organisms contain systems of organs carrying out specialised functions that enable them to survive and reproduce

This online resource allows students to investigate scientific claims related to physical fitness.

The resource has student worksheets and teacher resources available for an investigation into examining scientific claims related to physical fitness.

Students collect first-hand data and go through a process of peer review to examine a claim relating to the data.

Second-hand data is then offered to help in the examination of new claims. Students are led through the process of analysing the data.

This online resource investigate the physics of the human lung.

The resource gives printable instructions on how to make a model lung out of a small plastic drink bottle. This is useful for explaining how movement of the diaphragm causes air to move into the lungs.

Students could then examine what variables affect air flow (for example: pregnancy pressing on the diaphragm).

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8)

This video shows how a heart pumps blood.

The resource is a TED Ed video (4:27) that uses animations to explain how the ventricals and valves in the heart work together to pump blood through the body.

This clip could be used as part of a lesson, or at the end of a heart dissection lab to emphasise the function of the different chambers.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8)

This is a video showing a lung dissection.

This 5-minute video shows a teacher from Preston College (UK) inflating sheep lungs.

There is also a brief view of a fully dissected set of lungs that shows the trachea, bronchioles, and individual lobes. This could be shown to a class or used as an instructional guide for a teacher.

Safety alert:

This online resource gives a step-by-step guide of a sheep’s heart dissection.

The resource shows labelled pictures illustrating each step and a good description of the key structures of the heart.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U01 (Year 8), AC9S8U02 (Year 8)

This online resource deals with the circulatory and respiratory systems.

The resource is a series of lesson plans that teachers can use to demonstrate the key principles of operation of the circulatory and respiratory system.

There are also videos of operations that a teacher can choose to use. This is good for teacher ideas or for showing the videos to students.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U01 (Year 8), AC9S8U02 (Year 8)