This graphic organiser, ‘Dinosaur Attributes’ helps students create a new dinosaur based on the facts that they know about dinosaurs, then write a story about their dinosaur.
This article, ‘All About Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Footprints’, describes the dinosaur stampede at Lark Quarry in Australia. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of natural history and includes colourful and engaging images.
This physical science worksheet, ‘Does It Make a Shadow?’ provides opportunities for students to explore the properties of different objects.
This article, ‘Dogs in Space’, describes the first dog to go to space. It provides factual information about this mission and features a photograph of Laika.
This graphic organiser, ‘Double Attribute Tree’ helps students to arrange information into small distinct categories, then write stories using this information.
This article, ‘All About Insects: Dragonflies and Damselflies’, provides information about dragonflies and damselflies. It features interesting facts about these insects and includes colourful and engaging images.
This article, ‘All About Australian Animals: Dreamtime Stories’, describes Aboriginal Australians’ relationship with animals. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of Australian Aboriginal culture and includes colourful and engaging images.
This short nonfiction text, ‘E: Echidna’ provides factual information about the Australian animal the Echidna.
This graphic organiser, ‘Ecosystem Web’ helps students to connect relationships between organisms in a useful way.
This hands-on activity, ‘Energy Conversion 1’ asks students to investigate the concept of energy conversion when bending a wire back and forth.
This hands-on activity, ‘Energy Conversion 2’ asks students to make a wind instrument and investigate how you can change wind into sound.
This hands-on activity, ‘Energy Conversion 3’ asks students to make a water rocket to investigate how you can change chemical energy into movement.
This hands-on activity, ‘Energy Conversion Project’ asks students to design and build a robot to explore the conversion of energy.
This hands on activity, ‘Energy Project’ can be used to assess students’ research and presentation skills in investigating different types of energy.
This graphic organiser, ‘Experiment Chart’ helps students to record and arrange information from an experiment in an efficient manner.
This graphic organiser, ‘Experimenting with Barometers’ asks students to conduct experiments using barometers and interpret the data.
This graphic organiser, ‘Experimenting with Static Electricity’ ask students to perform experiments on static electricity and record their findings.
This article, ‘Antarctic Discovery: Exploring the End of the World’, provides information about the discovery of Antarctica. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical and historical awareness and includes colourful and engaging images.
This article, ‘All About Animal Families: Family Names’, describes different names for animal families. It provides factual information and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘All About Insects: Finders Keepers’, explains how to catch insects for observation. It provides factual information about different insects and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘All About Dinosaurs: Finding Dinosaur Bones’, explains what palaeontologists do with dinosaur bones. It is aimed at broadening students’ awareness of natural history and includes colourful and engaging images.
This article, ‘All About Sea Creatures: Fish’, provides information about fish. It features interesting facts and colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Bushfires: Flame Wars’, provides information about bushfires. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Endangered: Flatback Turtles’, provides information about this endangered species. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘All About Animal Families: Flying Families’, profiles different types of animal families that fly together. It provides factual information about these animals and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This hands-on activity, ‘Forces’ asks students to investigate what happens when force is used on mass.
This article, ‘Antarctica: Freeze Frames’, provides information about Antarctica. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical awareness and includes colourful and engaging images.
This hands-on activity, ‘Friction 1’ asks students to explore the concept of friction and the effect of rubbing sandpaper on different surfaces.
This hands-on activity, ‘Friction 1’ asks students to investigate the concept of frictional forces and what happens when you try to pick up a handful of noodles with and without the use of oil.
This hands-on activity, ‘Friction 2’ asks students to explore the concept of friction and the effect of rubbing crayons on different surfaces.
This hands-on activity, ‘Friction 2’ asks students to investigate the concept of frictional forces and what happens when you build and launch a hovercraft.
This hands-on activity, ‘Friction 3’ asks students to explore the concept of friction and how the use of different materials can control the amount of friction.
This hands-on activity, ‘Friction Project’ asks students to make a meal or snack using friction.
This article, ‘Reusing and Recycling: From Trash to Treasure’, provides information about reusing and recycling. It is aimed at broadening students’ environmental awareness and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Fruits of the Forest’, profiles different fruits that grow in rainforests. It provides factual information about these fruits and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘All About Animal Homes: Grasslands’, describes different animals that live in grasslands. It provides factual information about these animals and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity 1’ asks students to investigate the effect of gravity on a piece of dough being dropped from different heights.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity 1’ asks students to investigate the force of gravity and what happens when you shoot and drop a rubber band at the same time.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity 2’ asks students to investigate what happens when two marbles are dropped from the same height at the same time.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity 2’ asks students to investigate how high they can tip a board with different heights of block towers on it before they fall off.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity 3’ asks students to investigate what happens when a marble and a tissue are dropped from the same height at the same time.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity 3’ asks students to explore the concept of gravitational force and the effect of running on a flat, downhill and uphill surface.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Mass 1’ asks students to make a simple scale to show that the more mass an object has, the greater the effect of gravity.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Mass 2’ asks students to use a simple scale to investigate objects of different mass.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Mass 3’ asks students to introduce the concept of weight as gravity pulling on mass through using scales to measure how heavy different objects are.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Mass 4’ asks students to investigate the concept of same size, different mass through comparing two objects of the same size but differing weight.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and Orbits 1’ asks students to draw the orbit of a planet around the sun and investigate the relationship between distance and the force of gravity.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity and the Tides’ asks students to investigate the effects of the moon’s gravitational pull on the earth when we observe tidal changes.
This hands-on activity, ‘Gravity Project’ asks students to build a timing device that uses gravity.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Great Inventions’, profiles some of the great inventions of our time. It provides factual information about these inventions and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘All About Animal Homes: Habitats’, describes different places animals make their homes. It provides factual information about animal habitats and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘Quicksand: Help Me… I’m Sinking!’, provides information about quicksand. It includes a basic explanation and a scientific explanation of what causes quicksand.
This article, ‘Help Me… There’s Lightning!’, provides information about lightning. It explains what causes lightning and includes tips on how to stay safe during a thunder storm.
This article, ‘Help! It’s a Jellyfish!’, provides information about jellyfish. It features interesting facts about thi venomous creature and includes colourful and engaging photographs.
This article, ‘All About Birds: Helping Birds’, provides information about what we can do to help birds. It encourages students to participate in activities that will help to protect birds and is aimed at broadening their awareness of environmental issues.