This online resource focuses on the concepts of inertia, energy and motion in general.
The resource gives instructions for a teacher demonstration where a long string of beads is given a slight tug and practically pulls itself out of a container and onto the floor.
The web page includes an explanation of how it works and how to take the demonstration further.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This online resource investigates the concepts of inertia.
The resource is a student practical activity or teacher demonstration that focuses on the law of inertia and how it can be used to convert the gravitational potential energy of stationary eggs into kinetic energy.
It includes an explanation of what’s happening and definitions of key terms.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
This online resource explores potential and kinetic energy.
The resource is a student practical activity that focuses on demonstrating the transference of energy through the building a model roller coaster.
It includes instructions on how to create a roller coaster using a marble and foam tubing cut in half.
The resource also includes definitions of key terms as well as where to go to learn more about roller coasters.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9), AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This downloadable document is a worksheet for calculating average speed.
The document is for a practical activity where students use a stopwatch, trundle wheel and a flag to record and calculate the average speed of vehicles over a distance.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This hands-on activity deals with energy conservation and transformation.
The resource is a downloadable document that contains instruction and investigation prompts for an intriguing student practical activity concerning energy conservation and transformation.
The activity involves the construction of a cylinder that when rolled away across the floor, slows, stops and returns.
This device is commonly known as a ‘comeback can’ or ‘returning tin’.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
This downloadable student activity investigates velocity and acceleration.
The resource is an MS Word document that details a practical activity that focuses on investigating constant velocity and accelerated motion using ticker timers and dynamics trolleys in the laboratory.
The resource can also be used as student worksheets for the activity.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
This online resource looks at the transfer of energy.
The resource is a student activity that focuses on the energy conversions between GPE and KE when a ball bounces.
The investigation begins with a teacher demonstration and explanation then moves on to student investigations, dropping different balls from different heights.
Simple but effective.
.Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (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)
This online resource deals with transfer of energy in a pendulum.
The resource is a PDF of a student activity that focuses on the motion of a pendulum and the factors that affect the period of oscillation of a pendulum.
The resource also looks at the role of energy transformation and the law of conservation of energy.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U05 (Year 8), AC9S9U05 (Year 9)
A downloadable resource in which students determine a value for gravitational acceleration.
This downloadable resource is a worksheet for a practical activity where students determine a value for the acceleration due to gravity and then compare it to 9.8 ms-2.
Students drop a ball from a height and measure the distance covered and time taken.
The worksheet details the necessary calculations.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U05 (Year 10)
