This online resource provides a way of demonstrating photosynthesis in action.
The procedure used for this investigation was produced by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis.
It is well illustrated and uses leaf disks suspended in water to demonstrate the production of oxygen during photosynthesis.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U01 (Year 8), AC9S8U02 (Year 8)
This Connected Learning Experience explores how cell specialisation helps animals survive.
In this investigation, the specialised structures and functions of cells in the tongue are explored to determine how this organ helps animals survive.
Claims regarding the taste map of the tongue, published in 1901, are evaluated through planning and conducting experiments, processing, analysing and evaluating the data.
Learning intentions
Students will be able to:
This online resource looks at the digestive system.
The resource is an ASSIST Connected Learning Experience (CLE) to help teach Year 8 students about the digestive system in higher animals.
Description: In this investigation, the role of the digestive system is investigated in the context of modelling the human digestive system.
Learning intentions
Students will be able to:
Updated September 2016
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) contains a detailed method for how to perform a rat dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) contains a detailed method, including photographs, for how to perform a heart dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only, and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) contains a detailed method, including photographs, for how to perform a kidney dissection.
The accompanying example risk assessment should be used as a guide only, and users should consider risks and safety measures in their local environment before proceeding.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8), AC9S9U01 (Year 9)
This activity outline looks at methane production in the digestive process.
The resource contains background notes, step-by-step instructions and student worksheets for a hands-on activity examining the production of methane by microbes.
Students can extend this experiment by comparing the gas production from different foods.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S5U01 (Year 5), AC9S6U01 (Year 6), AC9S8U01 (Year 8), AC9S8U02 (Year 8)
This online resource looks at technologies that unblock clogged blood vessels.
Following the steps of the engineering design process and acting as biomedical engineers, student teams can use everyday materials to design and develop devices and approaches to unclogging blood vessels. Through this open-ended design project, they learn about the circulatory system, biomedical engineering, and conditions that lead to heart attacks and strokes.
This online resource investigates cells and organs.
The resource is an inquiry-based learning sequence that covers the characteristics of life, cells, microscopes, cell organelles, tissues, organs and body systems.
It includes hands-on activities, digital interactives, animations and videos, and students learn to table and graph results and produce scientific drawings and also undertake dissections of squid and celery plants.
A teacher guide, activity sheets and assessment are also available.
Supply of porous pots: Does anybody still do the ‘porous pot’ activity? It involves a plaster of Paris pot, with a rubber stopper and glass tube, held upside down. The glass tube sits in coloured water. A fan heater is blown over the pot, water evaporates, drawing up water from the beaker, as shown by a bubble moving up. This is a simple reliable way of showing transpiration under a variety of conditions
