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This online resource investigates the importance of water to living things.

The inquiry-based resource details activities and tasks that are designed to engage younger students when they are learning about the importance of water to living things.

It provides question prompts and ideas on conducting investigations with students. The unit advises on ways for students to draw conclusions and communicate what they have discovered.

It also provides a range of teaching resources and stories that could be used when exploring this topic.

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 online resource deals with the web of life.

The resource is a Science by Doing online resource that covers ecosystems, food chains and webs, scientific classification, ecosystem management and sustainability.

This resource is an inquiry-based learning sequence of hands-on activities, digital interactives, animations and videos. Students can experience scientific fieldwork and learn how to develop a scientific argument.

Teacher guide, activity sheets and assessment items are available.

This animation demonstrates why we have night and day.

An accompanying quiz strategically asks questions that gives teachers the opportunity to dig deeper into student thinking with questions such as "why do you think that?" and "If that were true, what would you expect to happen if?".

Students can then use the interactive to check their ideas.

New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S2U01 (Year 2)

This interactive simulation introduces the concepts of habitat management.

The resource is a Scootle interactive that teaches students how people's actions can have positive and negative impacts on the health of a water environment.

Students learn about the effects of pollution and introduced species, and take positive action to restore the health of a pond by planting native species and removing sources of pollution.

New Australian Curriculum 9 Codes: AC9S6U01 (Year 6)

This unit of work investigates earthquakes.

The resource provides full information for a unit of work in which students explore how sudden geological changes and extreme weather conditions can affect the Earth's surface.

In the unit, students examine the causes and effects of earthquake and study how the magnitude, intensity and effects of earthquakes are measured.

This unit of work investigates the life cycle of living things.

It details ways of supporting and engaging younger students when learning about the growth, development, reproduction, and death of different living things.

New Australian Curriculum Codes: AC9S1U01 (Year 1), AC9S3U01 (Year 3)

This online resource introduces Foundation Year students to forces.

The resource is a Scootle resource in the from of an interactive challenge which requires students to make decisions about the force needed to move a range of animals across a bridge.

It explores pushes and pulls as forces that can move an object that is at rest.

New Australian Curriculum Code: AC9S1U03 (Year 1)

This online resource tests a student's knowledge about the states of matter.

The resource is a Scootle assessment item that tests student’s ability to identify characteristics of solids, liquids and gases using the particle model.

This assessment is useful in quickly identifying the students who have grasped the concept. It can be used as a pre-test to determine prior knowledge and then post-test to show improvement.

Australian Curriculum v9 Codes: AC9S7U05 (Year 7), AC9S8U06 (Year 8)