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This online resource looks at misconceptions about day and night.

The resource helps teachers understand the possible misconceptions younger students hold about day and night 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 how the relationship of the Sun and the Earth creates day and night.

New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S2U01 (Year 2)

This resource book provides a hands-on introduction to the topic of biodiversity.

The resource is a companion to the Queensland Museum's, Backyard Explorers—Leader's Guide.

This booklet helps with the teaching of biodiversity.

The resource was developed by the Queensland Museum as part of the Wild Backyard's program and focuses on local environments, such as backyards or school grounds.

This online resource looks at frogs and their habitat.

The resource is an educational web page that concentrates on the native frogs of the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges region.

It has information about frog habitat requirements, photographs of frogs, and the frog calls of eight different species.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S5U01 (Year 5), AC9S6U01 (Year 6)

A unit of work about the differences between day and night.

It contains modules of work for younger students around the themes of the environment, astronomy, forensic science, cleanliness and solar energy and how they relate to the day–night cycle.

As an example, one part of this resource deals with how children relate and build on their experiences of daytime light and night-time dark (e.g., is the grass still green at night?).

New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U02 (Year 1)

This online resource investigates Newton’s second law of motion.

The resource is a downloadable student practical activity that focuses on the relationship between mass, acceleration, and force as described in Newton’s second law of motion.

Students use a custom-made wooden "car" and rubber bands to toss a small mass off the car. The car, resting on rollers, is propelled in the opposite direction.

This online resource investigates energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The resource is a downloadable activity booklet aimed at about the Year 8 for Australian students; the resource is from a US site.

The resource book contains a crossword, a wordsearch, other puzzle sheets as well as answers to all puzzles, a glossary and a list of other related websites.

The booklet begins with an information page about energy literacy, energy efficiency and renewable energy forms.

This online resource is about artificial muscle fibres.

This short video from the ABC television show Catalyst shows how scientists have made artificial muscle fibres from nylon fishing line, an electric drill and a hairdryer.

This online resource investigates the difference between heat and temperature.

The resource is a short video from the ABC television show Catalyst that demonstrates the difference between temperature and heat and includes interviews with various people on the street who are asked what feels warmer or colder: a book or a computer hard drive?

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)