This online resource covers energy transformation and conservation.
The resource is a Science ASSIST Connected Learning Experience (CLE) to help teach Year 10 students the concepts involved in energy transformation and conservation.
Description: In this investigation, energy transformation and energy conservation are investigated by analysing the motion of a pendulum.
Learning intentions
Students will be able to:
This online resource looks at the consequence of rising sea levels.
The resource is a web page that focuses on the specific problems facing the Pacific island nation of Kirabati.
The web page provides a teacher's guide and resources that focus on teaching students how to use their knowledge and understanding of scientific principles to evaluate evidence and make value judgements based on scientific data about the causes and impacts of rising sea levels.
This online resource focuses on climate change and its effects.
The resource gives details for a sequence of two lessons that focus on potential effects of climate change.
Students examine scientific evidence using an inquiry approach.
The package includes 2 lesson plans and a teacher guide.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U04 (Year 10)
This CLE covers the topic of genetic inheritance.
The resource is a Connected Learning Experience developed by Science ASSIST to help Year 10 teachers teach the concept of genetic inheritance to their students.
It also includes examples of how the investigations and activities can be adjusted to cater for gifted and talented students.
Description: In this investigation, the inheritance of single gene traits will be investigated using animal and plant examples.
Learning intentions
This Connected Learning Experience looks at chemical reaction rates.
The resource is a Science ASSIST Connected Learning Experience to assist Year 10 teachers teach the concept of reaction rates to their students.
Description: In this investigation, factors which affect reaction rates are investigated by conducting experiments. Students can then use their knowledge and understanding of reaction rates to take on the role of a process chemist charged with controlling the time taken for a specific reaction to take place.
This online resource looks at cosmology.
The resource is a Connected Learning Experience (CLE) to help teachers teach the concepts concerned with the Big Bang theory to Year 10 students.
Description:
In this investigation, Edwin Hubble’s observations will be examined as evidence for the Big Bang theory. In 1929, Hubble discovered that the light from distant galaxies was red shifted and that the further a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it is moving away. This was evidence for the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang.
This online resource helps teach the concepts of motion and energy transformations.
The resource is a Science ASSIST Connected Learning Experience (CLE) designed specifically to teach the concepts of motion and energy transformations to Year 10 students.
Description:
In this investigation, motion and energy transformations are investigated in the context of modelling a bungee jump by an egg. There is an emphasis on finding and analysing patterns in data in order to solve a real-world problem.
Learning intentions
This downloadable resource looks at the Hubble constant.
The resource is a data analysis task where students plot the velocity of receding galaxies against their distance from Earth to obtain a value for the Hubble constant.
The students are then asked to convert this value into the age of the Universe and answer some other questions. Answers are also provided.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U03 (Year 10)
This downloadable resource investigates the Hertzsprung Russell Diagram.
The resource is a student data analysis task designed to teach students about the Hertzsprung Russell Diagram.
In this task, the absolute magnitude and spectral class for the 25 brightest stars in the night sky are listed.
The task is for students to plot this data to produce their own H-R diagram and answer some questions about it.
Answers are included.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U03 (Year 10)
This online resource investigates Newton's second law of motion.
In this resource, details are given for a hands-on activity where students make a catapult to learn about Newton's second law of motion.
