This online resource contains word-based puzzles on the Universe.
The resource provides a variety of word-based puzzles on the concepts involved with the Universe component of the curriculum.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U03 (Year 10)
This teaching unit explores making mixtures and separating components.
Students explore and create different combinations of mixtures of solids and liquids. They identify different everyday mixtures found in the school and home, and explain the benefits and purposes of particular mixtures.
Students apply their new learning by planning and conducting investigations about how to separate a mixture of solids and what different black inks are made of.
New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9SFU03 (Foundation), AC9S2U03 (Year 2)
This online resource looks at the study of evolutionary processes.
The resource is a virtual lab that helps teach students the skills of data collection and analysis through the study of evolutionary processes.
It includes three experiments in which students collect and analyze data using photographs of living stickleback fish specimens and fossil specimens.
This online resource looks at the links between the land and marine environments.
The resource gives details on a student activity where the students create a model the environment (or the teacher gives a demonstration) and students can examine the effects of nutrient run-off and leaching.
Students also examine fair testing procedures.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U02
This online resource looks at ecological food webs.
The resource specifically looks at a marine trophic pyramid and the transfer of energy through its food web.
The resource has links to teacher background information, worksheets and activities.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U01 (Year 7), AC9S7U02 (Year 7)
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 video shows the effect of a vacuum on marshmallows.
The video could be used to reinforce the fact that space is a vacuum and explain why astronauts need to wear spacesuits.
For older students, it could also be used as a demonstration of Boyle's law, which relates pressure and volume for gases.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S2U01 (Year 2), AC9S6U02 (Year 6), AC9S7U03 (Year 7)
This online resource deals with common misconceptions about light and vision.
The resource gives the correct scientific view on light and vision and has activities to build student understanding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S5U03 (Year 5)
This online resource helps identify common misconceptions about the states of matter.
The resource provides background information about the states of matter that can help teachers identify and explore some of the common student alternative conceptions.
It also gives the proper scientific view, critical teaching ideas and teaching activities.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S5U04 (Year 5)
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)
