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Alternatives for Dissections
This website offers alternatives to animal dissections. Humane Research Australia offers a variety of alternatives to classroom animal dissections. These…
Balancing Chemical Equations
This simulation involves students balancing chemical equations. Produced by PhET, students first learn the basics of balancing. They then move…
Sexual vs Asexual Reproduction
This website helps differentiate between sexual and asexual reproduction. They are given a variety of organisms to choose from. After…
Reproduction Buddies – National Geographic Game
This interactive game is by National Geographic, exploring sexual vs asexual reproduction. Students have to help their organism make it…
Human Reproduction
This BBC Bitesize webpage explores the human reproductive organs. It includes videos, diagrams, information, and quizzes that could either be…
Garden detective: Australian garden
This online resource is a game that simulates an Australian garden. The resource is an interactive game that allows users…
Size of the Universe
This online resource investigates the scale of the universe. The resource is an interactive that will help students understand the…
Energy Chains: Making Electricity
This online interactive helps Year 6 students learn about energy conversion. The resource is a Scootle interactive learning object suitable…
Energy Chains: Energy Use
This online interactive look at the energy transformations in our electricity supply. The resource is a Scootle interactive learning object…
Rock Cycle Interactive
This interactive simulation looks at the Earth's rock cycle. The resource looks at evolution of rock types with an emphasis…
Australia’s Mineral Resources
This online resource explores Australia's mineral wealth. The resource is an interactive that allows students to trace the origins and…
Invertebrate Key
This interactive dichotomous key looks at the classification of invertebrates. The resource is from CSIRO entomology. It is simple to…
Old Bernie’s Pond
This interactive simulation introduces the concepts of habitat management. The resource is a Scootle interactive that teaches students how people's…
Rates of reaction: Collision Theory Simulation
This online resource demonstrates the collision theory of chemical reactions. The resource is a web-based java application that allows students…
The Periodic table with QR Code links (on Flickr)
This novel Flikr image explores the elements of the periodic table, with all the elements represented as QR codes. The…
Obtaining and using metals
This online resource details the chemistry involved in the extraction of metal from ore. The resource is a set of…
Coral Reefs
These videos show an expert panel discussing aspects of coral reefs. Produced by the ABC, these panel discussions look at…
Inside Story – Physics in medicine
This online resource shows students how physics is used in medicine. The resource allows students to examine results from PET…
Rock Cycle
This online resource has general information about the rock cycle. The resource is an interactive website where students can learn…
EarthViewer Interactive
This downloadable resource examines Earth's geological history. What did Earth’s continents and oceans look like 250 million years ago, or…
Interactive Water Cycle Diagram
This interactive diagram looks at the Earth's water cycle. The resource includes an interactive diagram that shows how the Earth's…
The energy story
This online resource covers the many types of renewable and non-renewable energy. The website allows students to read about the…
Pushing and pulling across a bridge
This online resource introduces Foundation Year students to forces. The resource is a Scootle resource in the from of an…
Plate tectonics simulator
This online resource simulates plate tectonics. The resource is a simulation of tectonic plate movement that allows students to change…
Plate tectonics – The Geological Society
This online resource has an interactive map showing tectonic activity. The map of the Earth have optional layers showing tectonic…
Build an Atom
This online resource explores the structure of an atom. The resource allows students to build an atom by dragging protons,…
What is inheritance?
This online resource explains terms associated with genetic inheritance. The terms covered by this resource include: inheritance, phenotype, genotype, dominant,…
Types of matter – using the particle model assessment
This online resource tests a student's knowledge about the states of matter. The resource is a Scootle assessment item that…
Find the elements
This online resource helps students determine if materials are compounds or elements. The resource is a Scootle interactive where students…
Exploring atoms – atom structure
This online resource explores the development of the atomic model. The resource is a Scootle website that gives students the…
Exploring Atoms – Atom Bingo
This online resource helps consolidate student's understanding of atomic structure through a bingo-like game. The game involves building atoms from…
Newton’s second law
This online resource investigates Newton's second law of motion. The resource is an interactive web page that focuses on the…
Analysis of situations in which mechanical energy is conserved
This online resource deals with the conservation of total mechanical energy. The resource is a tutorial on the concepts of…
Masses and springs
This online resource looks at the effect on springs of falling masses. The resource is a simulator that allows students…
Forces and motion
These online interactives demonstrate the interaction of forces. The resources are a number of downloadable interactive simulations that help explain…
Motion in two dimensions
This downloadable resource is useful for demonstrating velocity and acceleration vectors. The resource which can be either displayed in a…
Big Bang theory interactive timeline
This online resource looks at the history of the Universe. The resource is an interactive timeline that covers the history…