This website offers alternatives to animal dissections.
Humane Research Australia offers a variety of alternatives to classroom animal dissections. These include virtual dissections, synthetic models, and associated teaching resources.
This simulation involves students balancing chemical equations.
Produced by PhET, students first learn the basics of balancing. They then move on to a game.
It is a fantastically visual resource, with the options to show balancing scales and/or graphs alongside the molecules and symbols.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U07 (Year 9)
This website helps differentiate between sexual and asexual reproduction.
They are given a variety of organisms to choose from. After reading some information about each one, they get to vote on whether they believe that organisms reproduces sexually or asexually.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U02 (Year 9)
This interactive game is by National Geographic, exploring sexual vs asexual reproduction.
Students have to help their organism make it through the puzzle by working out whether it reproduces sexually or asexually.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S9U02 (Year 9)
This online resource is a game that simulates an Australian garden.
The resource is an interactive game that allows users to investigate the ecology of an average Australian garden.
Students can explore, find, collect, read about and classify a range of creatures commonly found in an Australian garden, including: crickets, wasps, slaters, ants, and dragonflies. In all there are 24 creatures to find.
This online interactive helps Year 6 students learn about energy conversion.
The resource is a Scootle interactive learning object suitable for Year 6 students learning about energy conversion.
It specifically deals with the generation and use of electricity.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S6U03 (Year 6), AC9S8U05 (Year 8)
This online interactive look at the energy transformations in our electricity supply.
The resource is a Scootle interactive learning object suitable for Year 6 students and not only covers the energy transformations that occur in the supplying of the electricity that comes out of a household wall socket, but also looks at how energy is lost during the transmission of this energy from it source to the user.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S6U03 (Year 6), AC9S8U05 (Year 8)
This interactive simulation looks at the Earth's rock cycle.
The resource looks at evolution of rock types with an emphasis on students learning to identifying the different types of rock that occur as part of the cycle.
This interactive provides valuable visualisations that allow students to explore highly abstract concepts and apply their understanding to natural features of the landscape.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U04 (Year 8)
This online resource explores Australia's mineral wealth.
The resource is an interactive that allows students to trace the origins and distribution of the country's extensive mineral resources.
The interactive examines the exploration process and explores different mining methods and the processing of ores.
Environmental issues relating to the management and rehabilitation of mine sites and the range of uses for minerals in everyday life are also investigated.
This interactive dichotomous key looks at the classification of invertebrates.
The resource is from CSIRO entomology. It is simple to use and enables users to work towards the identification of insects according to their observable features.
Once a particular invertebrate has been chosen, it includes information about their life characteristics, feeding, habitat, and life cycle.
The site also provides links to information about studying invertebrates as well as collecting and preserving them.
