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Ways to Teach Force and Motion
This website provides fun and engaging ideas for teaching force and motion to young learners. The website contains activity ideas,…

Agrifoods Portal
This online resource looks at the future of food. The resource is a portal hosted by PrimeZone to support the…

Science resources that include First Nations people’s perspective
This online resource helps you include First Nations perspectives in your teaching. The resources on the site are developed by…

CLE: ‘What is a Connected Learning Experience (CLE)’ video
This video describes what a Connected Learning Experience is. Kate Dilger, Science Assist Teacher Support Officer, explains what a Connected…

Word Puzzle Maker
This online resource allows teachers to create word puzzles. The resource is free to use and allows teachers to test…

Pushes and Pulls
This online teaching resource helps teach young students about forces. The resource discusses students' understandings of forces and motion (i.e.…

Investigating Compost
This online resource illustrates teaching practice using the concepts involved with compost. The resource is provided for teachers of younger…

Practical science for younger learners
This online resource demonstrates various learning programs for teaching the practical aspects of chemistry to younger students. The web page…

The Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
This online resource looks at human involvement in the Greenhouse Effect.The resource provides information suitable for Year 9 and 10…

Size of the Universe
This online resource investigates the scale of the universe. The resource is an interactive that will help students understand the…

The Future of Plastics
This online resource looks at plastics and their future use in Australia. The resource provides information on the current status…

Climate Change and Coral Bleaching
This online resource examines the bleaching of coral due to climate change. The website provides detailed information on the role…

Earthquakes
This online resource investigates fault lines and earthquakes. The resource has been developed by Geoscience Australia specifically for use in…

Solar System and Space Exploration – NASA
This online resource allows students to explore the Solar System. Students can engage with images, videos and podcasts to explore…

Weathering, erosion, landforms and regolith
This online resource looks at the geomorphology of Australia. The resource is a PDF that was developed by the AGSO…

CSIRO ScienceImage
This online resource is a source of science-related images. CSIRO ScienceImage is an online image library specialising in science and…

Radioactive Decay: a sweet simulation of a half-life
This online resource looks into the concept of radioactive decay. The resource is a lesson that uses M&Ms or Skittles…

Allotropes of Carbon
This online resource looks at different allotropes of carbon. The resource details a lesson to compare the molecular structure of…

Popcorn – an analogy for radioactive decay
This article provides an analogy for radioactive decay. It features snippets from a teacher who discusses how he uses popcorn…

The Chemistry of Haircare
The resource provides a range of activities to do with some key chemical concepts relating to hair care, shampoos and…
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Earthquakes lesson plans
This online resource investigates earthquakes. The resource details a series of 11 full lesson plans and activities to explore and…

Activities for radiation risks and uses
This online resource deals with teaching about radiation safely in schools. The resource has 27 sections on many aspects of…

Frogs of the Adelaide Mt Lofty Region
This online resource looks at frogs and their habitat. The resource is an educational web page that concentrates on the…

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…

Cacti and Succulents
This online video looks at how living things adapt to their environment. The resource is a 5-minute video produced by…

Bringing it to Life Tool (Teacher pedagogy)
This online resource helps develop a teacher's overall pedagogy. The resource, The BitL tool – Bringing it to life tool,…

Newton car
This online resource investigates Newton’s second law of motion. The resource is a downloadable student practical activity that focuses on…

Energy efficiency and renewable energy booklet
This online resource investigates energy efficiency and renewable energy. The resource is a downloadable activity booklet aimed at about the…

Build an Earthquake Proof Structure
This online resource investigates the implications of earthquakes. The resource gives details for a student activity building and testing a…

Voyager Video
This video is about the Voyager space probes, their locations and future goals as of June 2013. From the ABC…

Muscle fibre video
This online resource is about artificial muscle fibres. This short video from the ABC television show Catalyst shows how scientists…

Turbulence video
This online resource looks at laminar flow across an aircraft's wing. The resource looks into the effect of turbulence and…

Gravity video
This online resource looks at the effect of mass on gravity. The resource is a short video from the ABC…

Leaning Tower Video – Gravity Investigation with Air Resistance
This online resource investigates the gravity tower at Gingin near Perth. The resource is a video from the ABC television…

Proving the invisible exists activities
This online resource demonstrates the size of atoms and the way they move. The resource details three simple experiments and…

Flame colours – a demonstration
This online resource looks at the emission spectra of various cations. The first resource is a web page that details…

The Naked Scientists – Combustion Reactions
These online resources show various aspects of combustion reactions. The four links show the reactions and give explanations for the…

Acids and bases
This online resource is a web page that gives basic information on acids and bases including how to make litmus…

Magnets and Electrical Current
This online resource explores electromagnetism. The resource covers bar magnets, magnetic poles and magnetic fields. It also explores the types…

Electrical Current and Voltage
This online resource explores electricity and electric circuits. The resource covers electricity, electrical circuits, circuit diagrams and how the electrical…