01 Living in ecosystems
Australian Ecosystems
http://www.gullivermedia.com.au/eco.html
Click on any part of Australia to learn about arid mangroves and wetlands, reef rainforest, dry sclerophyll and other ecosystems.
Textbook section: 1.1 Adaptations
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Wildlife
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/nature_conservation/wildlife/
The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency is closely involved in identifying and assessing the living parts of the state's natural resources &ndash plants, animals and ecosystems. Research and monitoring programs determine what is happening to our wildlife and ecosystems and how best to protect these precious resources.
Textbook section: 1.2 The importance of biodiversity
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Living Planet Report, World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF)
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/living_planet_report/index.cfm
The Living Planet Report is the World Wildlife Federation's (WWF) periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems and the human pressures on them through the consumption of renewable natural resources.
Textbook section: 1.3 Human impact
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02 Inheritance and change
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/chemistry/
Nobel Posters &ndash Illustrated Presentations of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry &ndash describe the discoveries that have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry each year from 1988 to 2004. Interactive games teach the user about conductive polymers, chirality, DNA molecules, and inheritance.
Textbook section: 2.1 Molecule master mind
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HHMI's Blazing a Genetic Trail: Research on Mutant Genes and Hereditary Diseases
http://www.hhmi.org/genetictrail/
Examines the genetic issues surrounding inherited diseased including how genetic disorders are inherited, how to conquer a genetic disease, DNA mutations and the Human Genome Project. Includes a guide to basic genetics and a glossary.
Textbook section: 2.2 Characteristics and inheritance
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Cracking the Code of Life
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genome/
Tells the story of the genome triumph and its profound implications for the future of medicine with the following topics: Our Genetic Future (A Survey), Manipulating Genes: How Much is Too Much?, Understanding Heredity, Explore a Stretch of Code (Hot Science), Nature vs Nurture Revisited, Journey in to the DNA.
Textbook section: 2.3 Natural selection
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03 Responding to change
Vital Systems
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/
The site has been developed by the Education Adviser from the ABC Children's and Education TV unit. It is designed for students and teachers, with curriculum related information, useful resources and learning activities to support the Vital Systems TV series, presenting health related issues to school students. The programs include up-to-date clinical images, graphic illustrations and interviews with young people.
Textbook section: 3.1 Controlling the internal environment
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Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
Access Excellence is a (US) national educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web.
Textbook section: 3.2 Disease
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Human Body: Internet Hot List
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listhumanorpr.html
The internet resources listed here cover general sites, skeletal and muscular systems, digestive and respiratory systems, and immune system (listed under other).
Textbook section: 3.2 Disease
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04 The structure of matter
School Chemistry
http://www.schoolchem.com/
School Chemistry is a British site that contains material for Years 9, 10 and 11, GCSE Chemistry (UK), Standard Grade Chemistry (Scotland).
Textbook section: 4.1 Atomic structure
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Periodic Table Live
http://genchem.chem.wisc.edu/lab/PTL/PTL.html
Periodic Table Live, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, allows users to explore the elements in depth. Information is divided into three sections: Description, Physical, and Atomic. Students can view short videos of many of the elements' reactions with air, water, acids, and bases.
Textbook section: 4.2 Properties of matter
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Nanoworld Image Gallery &ndash Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis
http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/
The Centre is an interdisciplinary research and service facility dedicated to an understanding of the structure and composition of all materials at atomic, molecular, cellular and macromolecular scales. The Image Gallery is part of the educational resources provided to researchers, students and members of the wider community.
Textbook section: 4.4 Molecular substances
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05 Chemical interactions
Creative Chemistry
http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/
Worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club. GCSE question sheets and practical guides, interactive revision quizzes and science investigation help.
Textbook section: 5.1 Identifying chemical change
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Balancing and Interpreting Chemical Equations (review)
http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/software/TF2000/balancing.htm
Designed to help students understand chemical reactions, their symbolic representations as chemical equations and to apply this understanding when balancing equations and solving simple problems based on equations.
Textbook section: 5.2 Chemical equations
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Car Safety
http://www.science.org.au/nova/057/057key.htm
Death-defying designs for car safety. Car crumple zones and airbags, designed to absorb crash energy, are contributing to a lower road toll. (from Nova: Science in the News, the Australian Science Academy)
Textbook section: 5.3 Energy changes during reactions
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06 Chemical changes
Wondernet &ndash Your Science Place in Cyberspace
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/wondernetdisplay.html?DOC=wondernet/index.html
The American Chemical Society has developed a chemistry site for children. The topics include a Chemistry of smell and taste, Miraculous Metals, Polymers, States of Matter, Chemistry and Colour, The Science of Sodapop!, Chemical Reactions and The Wonders of Water.
Textbook section: 6.1 Types of chemical reactions
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World Wide Web Virtual Library Chemical Engineering
http://www.che.ufl.edu/WWW%2DCHE/
This subject catalogue lists information resources relevant to Chemical and Process Engineering. Categories include a range from Analytical Methods, through Reactions, Process Control, Teaching Topics and Resources, to Water Technology.
Textbook sections: 6.2 Metals reacting
6.4 Reactions of Acids and bases
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07 Energy
Atoms Family
http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/
The Atoms Family exhibit is online from the Miami Museum of Science. This resource contains lessons and activities relating to different forms of energy. Each is presented by a famous gothic horror character. The Mummy's Tomb: Learn about energy conservation, kinetic, and potential energy. Phantom's Portrait Parlour: principles of atoms and matter. Dracula's Library: properties of light, waves, and particles. Wolf Man's Ghostly Graveyard: fuel conservation and energy transfer.
Textbook sections: 7.1 Kinetic and potential energy
7.2 Energy conversion and transfer
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Energy Study Sheets and Classroom Activities - Middle School
http://www.venocoinc.com/community/learning/learning_middle.html
Produced by the US National Energy Education Development Project, the study sheets and classroom activities available here are aimed at middle school students. The study sheets cover an introduction to energy, petroleum, natural gas, and propane. Among the classroom activities: downloadable energy graphics, energy plays, energy rock performances, and games and icebreakers to introduce and reinforce energy concepts and information.
Textbook sections: 7.1, 7.2 & 7.4 Sound waves
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What is an electromagnet?
http://education.jlab.org/qa/electromagnet_is.html
A simple explanation, including construction and the right-hand rule.
Textbook section: 7.3 Radiation
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08 Motion
SimCalc
http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/
The SimCalc Project aims to democratize access to the Mathematics of Change for mainstream students by combining advanced simulation technology with innovative curriculum.
Textbook section: 8.2 Speed and velocity
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Physics Classroom - Newton's Laws of Motion
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/newtltoc.html
Physics Classroom Tutorial is an online physics tutorial written for high school physics students. The Tutorial covers basic physics topics using informative graphics and an easy-to-understand language. Each unit is broken up into lessons and sub-lessons.
Textbook section: 8.4 Newton's laws
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Simple Machines
http://sln.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/
This site at the Franklin Institute Online looks at simple machines which are commonly used in the work place and at home such as incline, lever, wedge, screw, wheel, axle, and pulley. There are links to further information and small experiments that students can try.
Textbook section: 8.5 Machines
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Articles on electricity
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/ele-edu.html
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/ele-edu.html
Loads of links to readable articles on all aspects of electricity.
Textbook section: 9.1 Critical concepts
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NSW Government Radio Network (GRN)
http://www.grn.nsw.gov.au/
The GRN, one of the largest analogue/digital trunked radio networks in the world, covering about one-third of NSW, consists of a Network Operations Control Centre (NOCC) located in Sydney and 85 separate radio sites that provide seamless mobile radio coverage. The network is wholly owned by the NSW Government and operated under contract with Telstra.
Textbook section: 9.5 Electrical signals
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What is an electromagnet?
http://education.jlab.org/qa/electromagnet_is.html
qA simple explanation, including construction and the right-hand rule.
Textbook section: 9.6 Electricity and magnetism
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10 The restless Earth
Earth Science Australia
http://earthsci.org/
Sponsored by the Geological Society of Australia, this site contains resources useful to teachers of Earth Science (both primary and secondary), including fact sheets, and resources and exercises contributed by teachers. There are also links to Earth Science freeware programs and a young palaeontologist's page.
Textbook section: 10.1 Structure of the Earth
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Earthquakes
http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emaInternet.nsf/Alldocs/35C68CAE1F3FA8AECA256C5A0023691C?OpenDocument
Emergency Management Australia's earthquakes page explains earthquakes, looks at Australian earthquakes, the Newcastle earthquake and contains an earthquake epicentre map.
Textbook section: 10.3 The next eruption
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Savage Earth
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/
From PBS, this site looks at the structure of the earth's crust and how and why it causes earthquakes and volcanoes, and tsunamis. There are animations of the inner core of earth, an earthquake, volcanic eruption, and a tsunami.
Textbook section: 10.3 The next eruption
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11 In a fraction of a bang!
Big Bang Theory
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bb1.html
The Big Bang Theory is a broadly accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe. It postulates that the observable universe started from an instantaneously expanding point, roughly ten to twenty billion years ago.
Textbook section: 11.1 Theories of the origin of the universe
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Death Star
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gamma/
In 1967, a United States satellite network intended to monitor Soviet compliance with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty detected unusual signals coming from outer space. Defying astronomers' expectations, these turned out to be unimaginably violent bursts of gamma-ray radiation located at the far edges of the known universe. The titanic explosions are so far back in time that they conceal clues to the birth of the very first stars and black holes, back when the cosmos had barely begun.
Textbook section: 11.2 Describing stars
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Tech Museum Online - Discover - Online Exhibits
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/online/
The Tech's "hands-online" interactive museum contains exhibits that explore the technology and science changing our world today. Exhibits available: Robotics, 2001: destination space, Make it right at The Satellite Site!, Climb Higher with Everest Online!, The Hubble Space Telescope, Earthquakes, as well as a searchable Webopedia.
Textbook section: 11.3 Space technologies
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12 Resource management
Aquaculture
http://www.daffa.gov.au/fisheries/aquaculture
Aquaculture is the farming of fish and other aquatic animals (including pearls) and plants in either a saltwater or freshwater environment. The range of aquaculture products farmed in Australia has grown over the last 15 years and now, more than 60 species are being farmed.
Textbook section: 12.1 Aquaculture
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World Eucalypt Breeding Site
http://www.csir.co.za/plsql/ptl0002/PTL0002_PGE057_RESEARCH?DIVISION_NO=7318422&PROGRAM_NO=7300478
This site serves as a global information base on tree breeding and related research in eucalypt species and hybrids. It includes a Eucalypt Gene Pool Directory, international contacts in Eucalypt breeding, summaries of research projects, a virtual library of articles and reports, and information on world record trees.
Textbook section: 12.3 Forestry
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Geoscience Education Resources - AGSO
http://www.ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/
AGSO offers the hands-on Earth Science Education Centre, operates Teacher Professional Development Workshops in Australian capital cities and some major centres, and produces resource materials for teachers, students and the general community.
Textbook section: 12.4 Geological resources
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