Updated September 2016
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) contains a detailed method for how to perform a rat dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This online resource investigates the advantages and disadvantages of vaccination.
The resource gives details on an activity that investigates the advantages and disadvantages of vaccination against Ebola.
The downloadable resources include a step-by-step teacher guide to examining the evidence and a PowerPoint presentation containing student worksheets.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) contains a detailed method, including photographs, for how to perform a heart dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only, and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) contains a detailed method, including photographs, for how to perform a kidney dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only, and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
These online resources investigate the human body's endocrine system.
The resources provides background details and instructions for an activity on the how human body's endocrine system works that uses the mail delivery system as a model.
The first resource contains teacher background information while the second resource provides the step-by-step instructions for the activity which looks at the specificity of the hormone–receptor interactions within the endocrine system.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This online resource looks at herd immunity to epidemics.
The resource provides worksheets and step-by-step instructions for a student activity studying immunity to epidemics that is found in herds of animals.
In this activity, students can identify which vaccinated individuals in a social network would result in the most effective herd immunity.
The activity relies on the students running multiple simulations and assessing the effectiveness of their strategies.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This online resource shows how pH levels can be used to measure the respiration of cells.
In this activity, students use a simple pH indicator to measure how much CO2 is produced during respiration, at rest and after exercising. They begin by comparing some common household solutions in order to determine the colour change of the indicator. They then review the concepts of pH and respiration and extend their knowledge to measuring the effectiveness of bioremediation in the environment.
Engineering Connection
Supply of porous pots: Does anybody still do the ‘porous pot’ activity? It involves a plaster of Paris pot, with a rubber stopper and glass tube, held upside down. The glass tube sits in coloured water. A fan heater is blown over the pot, water evaporates, drawing up water from the beaker, as shown by a bubble moving up. This is a simple reliable way of showing transpiration under a variety of conditions
This downloadable resource is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and detailed method, including photographs, of how to perform an eye dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only, and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
SOP updated August 2016
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
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)
