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Science

Science

The following activities are general in nature and are intended to be additional activities. For specific content related to your child’s class, can you please refer to the relevant Google Classroom.

Year 7

Science by Doing

You will need to register as a student. It is free. Select the topic "Enough Water Fit for Drinking" and work through it. 

FUSE (Education and Training, Victoria)

Select and complete activities:

  • Fair test: design a fair test: assessment
  • Save the Lake
  • Solutions to recovering salt
  • Water sources game

ABC Education

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Year 8

Science by Doing

You will need to register as a student – it is free. Select the topic “Energy” and work through.

FUSE (Education and Training, Victoria)

Go to the “Energy Kids Page”, explore and follow the learning prompts.

ABC Education

This site has many resources related to the topics you are studying. Have a look!

Biointeractive

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Year 9

Science by Doing

You will need to register as a student – it is free.

Select the topic closest to the unit you have been studying, “Chemical Reactions” or “Light, Sound, Action” and work through.

FUSE (Education and Training, Victoria)

Select and complete activities:

  • Exploring Atoms: Atom Structure
  • The elements
  • Outer electrons of atoms

ABC Education

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Year 10

Science by Doing

You will need to register as a student – it is free.

Select the topic you have been studying ,“Chemical Patterns” or “Motion and Energy Transfer” and work through.

“Evolution and Heredity” can be attempted.

FUSE (Education and Training, Victoria)

Select and explore the resources:

  • Elements and Periodic Table
  • Development of the Periodic Table
  • Outer electrons of atoms
  • Force and energy using Mathematica
  • It’s a Drag

Go to “Natural Selection: Peppered Moth Simulation”. Run and answer questions Data and Analysis.

View:

  • Survival of the Fittest
  • Fossils and the evolution of life
  • How Evolution Works
  • Genes
  • Genetic, Inheritance and Epilepsy
  • Understanding Genetic Modification

ABC Education

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Biointeractive

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