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Selling: chocolate

In this interactive game, students must interpret data on chocolate bar sales, to identify ways to increase sales. Students will interpret graphs and tables to help them design a chocolate bar recipe for a target audience. They will interpret data to help them design a wrapper and advertising poster for their chocolate ...

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Dr Karl's How Things Work: How scientists are helping save cacao crops

Climate change, pests and disease threaten to leave us in a world without chocolate. In this 4-minute clip from Dr Karl's How Things Work, Dr Karl meets two scientists who are exploring ways to protect cacao plants into the future.

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Elliot and the Surfing Scientist: From chocolate buttons to magic patterns

Want to do a simple science experiment that works just like a magic trick? Watch the Surfing Scientist to find out how. He creates a pattern made up of regular shapes by dissolving coated chocolate buttons.

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Cool colour

This is a lesson plan, complete with instructions, materials list, worksheets and photographs of the expected results from the ABC's surfing scientist. The students are encouraged to participate in a first-hand science activity using sugar and colour-coated chocolate lollies.

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Creating an Indigenous plant-use garden: plant list

For thousands of years, First Nations peoples across Australia have been growing and cultivating plants. Plants are grown for many different purposes, including food, tools, medicine, shelter, clothing, hunting, carrying, water craft, ceremony and land management. Everything they needed to survive is provided by the bush. ...

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Cartoon of an Australian wife kissing a US soldier, 1943

This cartoon shows a US soldier romancing the wife of an Australian soldier. A shocked Australian Army private in uniform is depicted peering from behind a curtain at his attractive wife in the arms of a suave-looking US staff sergeant, who is also in uniform. The private holds a photograph album and the uniform hats of ...