Educational

Acid Rain

This online resource looks at the harmful effects of acid rain.

Details are given for a simple experiment to model and explore the harmful effects of acid rain on living and non-living objects.

Acid rain is a complex environmental problem that concerns many environmental and chemical engineers. When engineers examine the acid rain damage to water, wildlife, forests, crops and structures, they consider the impact on human health.

Doing Science Investigations: Student Guide - Science by Doing

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)

Forces Without Contact - Student Misconceptions

This online resource is about teaching non-contact forces.

The resource provides teaching strategies for teaching about non-contact forces such as gravity, magnetism and electrostatic attraction.

It includes a discussion of student misconceptions and how they compare with the scientific view, as well as activities to complete with your class.

Critical teaching ideas covered.

Magnetism: A Non-Contact Force

This online resource introduces magnetism as a non-contact force.

The resource provides strategies for teaching younger students and discusses everyday experiences of students and how they compare to scientific knowledge, and provides activities to complete with your class.

Magnets pull or push on objects without touching them. The underpinning science concepts include:

The Environment and Living Things

This online resource looks at the interdependence of the environment and living things.

The resource provides support and ideas for teaching about the flow of energy within an ecosystem and the interdependence of living things and the environment they live in.

The web page also provides research about alternative student conceptions so that students can be guided to develop an understanding of the scientifically held view.

Living Things - Student Misconceptions

This online resource discusses student misconceptions about living things.

It includes details of possible student misconceptions and how they contrast to scientific views. It outlines critical teaching ideas with references to research and literature to support, and provides ideas for ways to teach these topics to students.

Bringing it to Life Tool (Teacher pedagogy)

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.

Build an Earthquake Proof Structure

This online resource investigates the implications of earthquakes.

The resource gives details for a student activity building and testing a structure that needs to withstand simulated earthquake vibrations.

Students use a shake table to simulate the earthquakes' movement. The activity can be used as is, or can be used as a stimulus for similar activities such as simulating liquifaction.

There is also scope to build and test different types of structures, using a variety of materials, to examine how the shake table affects the structures.

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