Science / Year 9 / Science as a Human Endeavour / Nature and development of science

• TLF-IDL5826

Investigate the internal structure of the Earth using earthquake measurements. Examine the Earth’s outer layer. Fit the Earth's tectonic plates together like a jigsaw puzzle. Identify how plate movements produce many features of the Earth’s surface. Predict the formation of new volcanic islands. This learning object is ...

• TLF-IDM015864

Imagine tunnelling deep, deep below the Earth's surface. What do you think you would find thousands of kilometres down? Watch this clip to find out what is inside the Earth, what it's made up of and how hot it is. Find out about earthquakes, volcanoes, and geysers, and how they help us to understand about the composition ...

• TLF-IDL5828

Investigate tectonic plate behaviour. Identify how plate movements produce many features of the Earth’s surface. This learning object is part of a series of three objects. The series is also packaged as a combined learning object.

• TLF-IDL10326

Test your understanding of the Earth's internal structure. Use animations and images to help you answer a series of questions dealing with the seismic exploration of the Earth’s internal structure and the structure of tectonic plates. View and print a report on your work. This assessment object is one in a series of two objects.

• TLF-IDL5829

Identify how plate movements produce many features of the Earth’s surface. Predict the formation of new volcanic islands. This learning object is part of a series of three objects. The series is also packaged as a combined learning object.

• TLF-IDM019062

This is a student guide that explores many aspects of energy including the different forms of energy, the energy of moving things, electricity, energy in food, and sources of energy used by modern societies. It is divided into different parts with each containing information, images and diagrams, hands-on inquiry activities, ...

• TLF-IDM014092

This is a unit designed to help students understand the theory of plate tectonics and how this theory was developed from evidence scientists gathered and analysed. Students examine how tectonic events are monitored and how future events can be predicted. By simulating events that occur during an earthquake, they examine ...

• TLF-IDM019064

This is a teacher guide that contains an overview of lessons relevant to a unit on energy. It contains resources to assist planning and implementing a study of the different forms of energy, the energy of moving things, electricity, energy in food, and sources of energy used by modern societies; and includes a unit outline, ...

• TLF-IDM020127

This is a teacher guide containing material to support the planning and implementing of lessons for a unit on chemical reactions. It covers topics such as atomic structure, elements and the Periodic Table, chemical reaction rates and energy, conservation of mass, radioactivity, combustion, and reactions involving acids ...

• TLF-IDM015380

What can science tell us about the major cause of bushfires in Australia's past? How can it help us predict future bushfires? Two scientists discuss evidence related to bushfire regimes (bushfire patterns, types and intensity). Please note that this clip contains recent images of homes destroyed by fire that may disturb ...