These videos show an expert panel discussing aspects of coral reefs.
Produced by the ABC, these panel discussions look at the topics of:
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U01 (Year 7), AC9S7U02 (Year 7)
This online resource allows students to investigate scientific claims related to physical fitness.
The resource has student worksheets and teacher resources available for an investigation into examining scientific claims related to physical fitness.
Students collect first-hand data and go through a process of peer review to examine a claim relating to the data.
Second-hand data is then offered to help in the examination of new claims. Students are led through the process of analysing the data.
This online resource investigate the physics of the human lung.
The resource gives printable instructions on how to make a model lung out of a small plastic drink bottle. This is useful for explaining how movement of the diaphragm causes air to move into the lungs.
Students could then examine what variables affect air flow (for example: pregnancy pressing on the diaphragm).
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8)
This online resource has general information about the rock cycle.
The resource is an interactive website where students can learn all about rocks and geology: the science of rocks.
They can learn how rocks can be identified, how they are formed, and how they change over time.
Students can also learn how to identify the three major kinds of rocks and learn how to tell them apart.
They can also learn what kind of changes can happen to rocks, and about the processes that cause these changes.
This downloadable resource examines Earth's geological history.
What did Earth’s continents and oceans look like 250 million years ago, or even 1 billion years ago? What do we know about the climate back when our planet formed?
This free-to-download software allows you to follow continental drift and certain aspects of climate change from 540 million years ago to the present without having to reload. It has several other useful and interesting additional features as compared to 'Ancient Earth'.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S10U03 (Year 10)
This video shows how a heart pumps blood.
The resource is a TED Ed video (4:27) that uses animations to explain how the ventricals and valves in the heart work together to pump blood through the body.
This clip could be used as part of a lesson, or at the end of a heart dissection lab to emphasise the function of the different chambers.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S8U02 (Year 8)
This video explains the principal of refraction.
The video is by science presenter Bill Nye where he explains why light bends when it passes into a different medium (e.g., air to plastic).
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S5U03 (Year 5)
This online resource shows the scale of objects in the Solar System.
The video shows the comparative sizes of planets, the Sun and the Moon and the distances to these objects from the Earth and the Sun.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S2U01 (Year 2), AC9S6U02 (Year 6), AC9S7U03 (Year 7)
This online resource demonstrates the scale of the Solar System.
In this online video, Bill Nye: The Science Guy, rides his bike across a barren plain to demonstrate the scale of the Solar System.
Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S2U01 (Year 2), AC9S6U02 (Year 6), AC9S7U03 (Year 7)
This is a video showing a lung dissection.
This 5-minute video shows a teacher from Preston College (UK) inflating sheep lungs.
There is also a brief view of a fully dissected set of lungs that shows the trachea, bronchioles, and individual lobes. This could be shown to a class or used as an instructional guide for a teacher.
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