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This fantastic resource offers all students, but especially students with hearing impairments, to hear the educator very clearly and accurately. This device connects to speakers within the classroom and students' hearing aids to amplify the teachers voice to reduce straining throughout the day, and so that the teacher can be heard when they are facing the whiteboard and talking.

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Helperbird offers students with reading impairments, dyslexia or general reading difficulty some reprieve and assistance when ready all forms of text. This resource works on all resources, whether it be via the educators PowerPoint document or accessing a website, as it is a Google Chrome extension. Helperbird offers lots of accessibility and customisation opportunities, making this an innovative resource for bridging the gap between reading impaired students and easier learning.

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Literacy, Accessibility & Dyslexia Software | Helperbird

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This resource was scooped from Kayla Kirk's Padlet.

This resource is great for students who suffer from Dyslexia or other difficulties with writing and spelling, where text is generated from the student states in the microphone. This allows for a great combination of transformative ICT use as well as supporting all students learning in an innovative way.

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SpeechTexter is a free professional multilingual speech-to-text application aimed at assisting you with transcription of any type of documents, books, reports, blog posts, etc by using your voice. SpeechTexter's custom dictionary allows adding short commands for inserting frequently used data (punctuation marks, phone numbers, addresses, etc)

Voice-to-text software is exceptionally valuable for people who have difficulty using their hands due to trauma, people with dyslexia or disabilities that limit the use of conventional input devices.

This technology is supported by Chrome browser (for desktop only) and Android OS. Other browsers (including Chrome for mobile) have not implemented speech recognition yet.

SpeechTexter is used daily by students, teachers, writers, bloggers, news reporters around the world.

It will assist you in minimizing your writing efforts significantly.

Accuracy levels higher than 90% should be expected (around 95% for the English US).

It can also be used as a tool for learning a proper pronunciation of words in the foreign language, in addition to helping a person develop fluency with their speaking skills.

Features:

Powerful real-time continuous speech recognition

Creation of text notes, emails, writing of books, blog posts, etc

Custom dictionary (you can add your own commands for punctuation, or other data), ex. "question mark" > "?", "new line" > (ENTER key)

More than 60 languages supported

List of supported languages:
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Zulu.

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SpeechTexter is a free professional multilingual speech-to-text application aimed at assisting you with transcription of any type of documents, books, reports, blog posts, etc by using your voice.

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Stile offers an interactive and engaging program to facilitate collaborative learning and interactive activities. Technology is crafted and integrated to enhance classroom teaching, not replace it.

Educators have live access to students progress throughout the activity, and can provide real-time feedback. Additionally, the interactive simulations present allow students to model and run their own experiments, label diagrams, construct tables and graphs, and much more!

Lessons can be run through Stile through the 'Teaching Mode', where students screens can be controlled to retain focus on the teacher and their presentation, as well as send all students the questionaire, where data of their questions will be presented on the teachers screen to be shared with students.

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World-class resources for direct instruction and self-paced learning

Stile is for everyday use in the science classroom. It is purpose-built to facilitate vibrant, collaborative learning with a mixture of rich, interactive activities that go well beyond the curriculum.

Stile is designed to empower teachers. Our resources are rigorously crafted to support evidence-based pedagogies. Our technology is crafted to help teachers, not replace them. Everything has been battle-tested and refined in thousands of classrooms.

Our classroom resources pair perfectly with Stile X, our new student notebook and revision guide, to ensure students master scientific concepts and learn critical study and note-taking skills to set them up for success in senior science.

Tour of Stile

Relevant and contextualized

Topics are taught in the context of recent science news, bringing real-world relevance to every lesson.

Every unit is guided by a relevant and relatable expert, showcasing a wide range of careers.

Engaging science news stories provide context and opportunities for collaboration and scientific discussion.

Engaging for all students

Each lesson starts with learning goals, helping students take responsibility for their learning.

Lessons are scaffolded from lower- to higher-order thinking, ensuring all students are challenged.

Interactive simulations allow students to model and run experiments.

Key insights into learning

As they work, students' responses are automatically saved in Stile and instantly visible to the teacher.

Teachers can provide real-time feedback for their students while teaching in Stile.

Students receive more feedback, more often.

We've covered every topic for 7-10 Science

Biology

Food Chains and Food Webs

Chemistry

Physical and Chemical Change

For each topic, you'll find a combination of

Stile in numbers

topics covering Australian curricula

digital science lessons and assessments

summative and formative questions, with fully-worked model answers

pre-tested practical activities using common materials, and with risk assessments

career profiles of young, relatable people using their science and engineering skills

custom-built simulations and interactives

high-quality short videos, many of which we've built ourselves

lessons focused on scientific discoveries, news, and current events

word dictionary of scientific terms, crafted against the curriculum

Stile was made to augment teachers in the classroom, not sideline them

Teachers are the single most important part of a student's education. Stile helps teachers perform at their best, saving them time and providing them with powerful learning tools.

Many online resources effectively sideline the teacher, leaving students in isolation answering volleys of lower-order questions. Stile does the opposite.

Stile puts the teacher in the driver's seat. It was designed to teach with - to give teachers complete visibility over their students' work, real-time analytics on their understanding of each concept, and the necessary tools to control the flow of the classroom. We believe that this true blended learning approach is the best way to make great use of the technology in today's classrooms.

What is Stile?

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Interpret concepts and problems

Inquiring

Identify, process and evaluate information

Develop questions

Generating

Put ideas into action

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The SAMR Model is a framework that categorises four different degrees of ICT integration within classrooms. The four elements of this model describe the different stages of ICT integration, and categorise whether its a transformative or enhancement integration.

The SAMR elements are:

Substitution

Augmentation

Modification

Redefinition

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Blooms Taxonomy is a framework which categorises educational goals and outcomes. This categorisation is as follows, ranked from Lower-Order Thinking to Higher-Order Thinking:

Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Analysing

Evalurating

Creating

This assists teachers to establish learning goals and objectives for both students and educators so clear objectives, appropriate instruction, and valid assessment tasks can be established, comprehended and communicated.

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AITSL Standards pertaining to responsible use of ICT's and other significant areas to aide teachers to understand and develop their teaching practice and expertise.

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Here the teacher explains how teacher confidence is key to safe and supportive learning environments when using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with students. She achieves this by supporting teachers develop small, self-contained projects that use secure ICT learning environments and supports them in their planning, teaching and evaluation until they are confident in independently using the toolset.

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As the focus of this unit will be on the carbon cycle, we will explore and investigate:

The different atmospheres of the Earth

What the carbon cycle is

If and how humans are impacting the carbon cycle

The greenhouse effect

Combustion, photosynthesis, and respiration and how they interact with the carbon cycle and the spheres

Strategies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions

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Science Understanding

AC9S9U03

Students will represent the carbon cycle and examine how key processes including combustion, photosynthesis and respiration rely on interactions between Earth's spheres (the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere).

Use and influence of Science

AC9S9H03

Students will analyse the key factors that contribute to science knowledge and practices being adopted more broadly by society.

Science Inquiry

AC9S9I01

Students will develop investigable questions, reasoned predictions and hypotheses to test relationships and develop explanatory models.

AC9S9I02

Students will plan and conduct valid, reproducible investigations to answer questions and test hypotheses, including identifying and controlling for possible sources of error and, as appropriate, developing and following risk assessments, considering ethical issues, and addressing key considerations regarding heritage sites and artefacts on Country/Place.

AC9S9I05

Students will analyse and connect a variety of data and information to identify and explain patterns, trends, relationships and anomalies

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Students will be tasked with an investigative assignment, where they will construct their own greenhouse and monitor the interior temperature compared to the outside temperature. 3 trials will be completed in different environments and variables (e.g. the effect different coloured greenhouses, CO₂ emissions, etc, have upon temperature).

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As presented above, the following general capabilities are evident within the selected unit of Year 9 Science:

Critical and Creative Thinking

Ethical Understanding

Literacy

Numeracy

Personal and Social Capability

Critical and Creating Thinking involves students analysing and assessing possibilities against criteria for judgement. They construct and evaluate arguments, and use information, evidence and logic to draw reasoned conclusions and to solve problems. This is organised into 4 elements; Inquiring, Generating, Analysing, and Reflecting.

ACARA. (2022). Understand this general capability. Australian Curriculum. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-general-capability/critical-and-creative-thinking

Ethical Understanding encompasses the knowledge and skills students require to identify ethical concepts, understand different ethical perspectives and apply ethical thinking in response to issues. It involves students exploring ethical issues and interactions with others, discussing ideas and learning to be accountable as members of a democratic community. This is organised into 2 elements; Understanding ethical concepts and perspectives, and Responding to ethical issues.

ACARA. (2022). Understand this general capability. Australian Curriculum. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-general-capability/ethical-understanding

Literacy enables students to access, understand, analyse and evaluate information and ideas, express thoughts and emotions; present ideas and opinions; interact with others. Students become literate as they develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions to interpret and use language confidently for learning and communicating in and out of school and for participating effectively in society. Speaking and listening, Reading and viewing, and writing are the 3 elements of Literacy.

ACARA. (2022). Understand this general capability. Australian Curriculum. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-general-capability/literacy

Numeracy is fundamental to a student's ability to learn at school and to engage productively in society. Numeracy encompasses the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need to use mathematics in a wide range of situations. The 3 elements of numeracy are number sense and algebra, Measurement and geometry, and Statistics and probability.

ACARA. (2022). Understand this learning area. Australian Curriculum. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-general-capability/numeracy

Personal and Social Capability provides a foundation for students to understand themselves and others, and navigate their relationships, lives, work and learning. This supports students to effectively engage with new ways of thinking, knowing and doing in an increasingly demanding and diverse global society. Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, and Social management are the 4 elements of this capability.

ACARA. (2022). Understand this learning area. Australian Curriculum. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/teacher-resources/understand-this-general-capability/personal-and-social-capability

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This engaging and insightful resource provides a questionaire to complete, which will calculate your carbon and ecological footprint, organising consumption based on categories.

The attention to detail on this website is amazing, with your answers tailoring your avatars environment around them (large house, 2 dogs, etc)!

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This resource allows students to interact directly with the content via modern ICT utilisation. Using Virtual Reality provides endless possibilities for different applications and uses. For my year 9 science class, this would be beneficial to demonstrate the different spheres of the Earth and what lies in each sphere, as well as the effects and impacts of climate change and the greenhouse effect projected over the years.

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The following describes an activity for students to observe the temperatures of jars containing different substances, with one containing vinegar and sodium bicarbonate. This demonstrates both how CO₂ is produced and reveals the effect this has on the temperature within the jar.

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When it comes to our environment, it is so important that our children learn about the effects of climate change. One way we can start to educate them on environmental sciences is through a simple science experiment that creates the Greenhouse Effect in a jar. This activity is fantastic as a homeschool experiment, science fair project, classroom demonstration, and most importantly, as part of Earth Day lessons.

Climate Change Science Experiment

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In recent years the climate crisis has become one of the most important challenges facing Earth and all of Earth's inhabitants. Understanding how the greenhouse effect works is a fundamental lesson we need to be teaching all of our students. Throughout their lifetime they are going to witness massive environmental changes. Many of which, we have already seen in our lives. I can only imagine what is to come, and I know it weighs heavily on my tweens and teens. But through education and changing our practices and lifestyles, there are things we can all do to make a difference and protect our planet.

Let's start with this science experiment that demonstrates the greenhouse effect.

Check out our video of this climate change experiment exploring greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect.

What is the Greenhouse Effect?

First off, we need to explain the term: Greenhouse Effect. A greenhouse is a building with glass for the walls and roof. That glass structure traps heat inside, making it a great place to grow plants where it stays all warm and cozy, even after the sun goes down or it is cooler outside.

Instead of glass, our planet is surrounded by an atmosphere made up of gases. Like a great big puffy coat of gas wrapped around the entire planet. The atmosphere traps the sun's heat on the Earth's surface making our planet perfect for living organisms.

The balance of those gases is delicate, and due to a number of different factors, in particular the burning of fossil fuels, that balance is being disrupted and it is affecting the quality of that protective layer around our Earth.

One of the most important greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide. When we drive our cars and burn fossil fuels like gas and oil, we are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This in turn causes more heat to be trapped on the Earth, leading to an increase in the average temperatures. This affects all living organisms, including humans.

The Greenhouse Effect Science Experiment

Now we know about the greenhouse effect, let's do some science! For this experiment we are going to use our much beloved and simple, baking soda and vinegar chemical reaction.

Supplies

5 Jars - Using all 5 jars provides an opportunity to apply scientific theory and the scientific method.
Vinegar - White, standard vinegar is best.
Baking Soda - Also known as sodium bicarbonate or bicarb. Don't use Baking Powder! It is a completely different chemical formula. You can learn more here about the differences between baking soda and baking powder.
Measuring cups and spoons - Important for accuracy during testing.
Plastic Wrap - Also known as clingfilm. It must be clear and able to seal tightly without tearing. I know we don't want to use plastic, but in this case it is what we need for this science experiment. You can try it with other materials, but we struggled to get the desired results. You can always save the plastic and reuse it!
Elastic bands - Large enough to fit over the mouth of the jar to secure the plastic wrap.
Heat Source - You can use a sunny window sill if you live somewhere with lots of hot direct sunlight, or use a heat lamp, space heater, or in our case we used a heat vent/radiator. It just needs to provide lots of heat evenly between the jars.
Thermometer - We have a non-contact infrared thermometer that worked perfectly. The kids LOVE using this type of thermometer in their science experiments but you can also use standard dual scale thermometers. If you use standard thermometers you will need one for each jar and a small knife or sharp scissors.
Masking Tape and Sharpie - For labeling the jars

Directions

Prepare the Jars

Start by labeling the jars. You will want:

The fifth jar does not need to be labeled, that one you will also be doing the reaction in, but without the plastic covering. However, if you want to label it, go ahead!

The reason we are doing all of these controls, is that we want to show that it is not just the vinegar or just the baking soda, or just the chemical reaction causing our result. We want to prove it is the trapped carbon dioxide gas.

Prepare a piece of plastic wrap big enough to cover the mouth of the jar with a bit of extra down the sides so it can be sealed completely. Repeat for 4 jars. Also add an elastic band for each piece of plastic wrap.

Place plastic wrap on the air jar and secure it with an elastic.

Add 1/4 up of vinegar to the vinegar jar, then cover with plastic wrap and secure with an elastic.

Add 1 tablespoon of baking soda to the baking soda jar, cover with plastic wrap and secure with elastic.

Reaction Time!

This next step is easiest with two people. Have one person read with the plastic wrap and elastic. The other person will add the baking soda to the jar, then add the vinegar. VERY QUICKLY place the plastic wrap over the mouth of the jar and secure it with an elastic. We need to capture the gases from the reaction, so work fast!

Here comes the sun

Now place the jars in front of your heat source. Ensure they are positioned so they will all be heated evenly. We used a heat register/radiator to evenly apply heat. A windowsill in the bright sun would work well too. Leave the jars with the heat for 5 to 10 minutes. We tested at both the 5 minute and 10 minute mark.

This heat source is replicating the warming effect of the sun.

Chemical Reaction Comparison

While the four jars are warming, take your fifth jar. Add 1 tablespoon of baking soda and 1/4 cup of vinegar. Watch the bubbly reaction! After about 30 seconds take a temperature reading. What do you notice? Baking soda and vinegar is an endothermic reaction! This is extremely interesting in the context of this greater experiment.

Temperature check

After your jars are warmed, it is time to take temperature readings.

If you are using a non-contact infrared thermometer, have your students take temperature readings from each jar, we found it best to aim straight down into the jar.

If you are using a standard thermometer, make a small slit in the plastic top of each jar, just big enough to slip the thermometer in without letting too much air escape. Place a thermometer in each jar. Wait one minute, then remove the thermometer and check the temperature readings.

What do you notice about the temperature readings? Record your results!

Greenhouse Effect Results

The chemical reaction in the enclosed jar is warmer than all the other jars with plastic covering. Those control jars are all about the same temperature. The coldest jar is the chemical reaction with no plastic covering. So cool!

The Greenhouse Science

The chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar is an acid-base reaction. Baking soda is a base and vinegar is an acid. When we combine them, they react in a bubbly, endothermic reaction. Endothermic means it becomes colder during the reaction.

Here is the chemical formula of this reaction
C₂H₄O₂ + NaHCO₃ -> NaC₂H₃O₂ + H₂O + CO₂(g)
vinegar + sodium bicarbonate -> sodium acetate + water + carbon dioxide(g)
The carbon dioxide is a gas, just like it is in the atmosphere, where it is one of the greenhouse gases.

In this experiment we are trapping the carbon dioxide gas in the jar. When heat is applied, the carbon dioxide traps more heat in the jar than our controls.

Where this became really interesting for us, was when the kids realized the reaction was endothermic, as demonstrated in our open chemical reaction jar. That means our jar with the trapped carbon dioxide not only trapped heat, but it trapped enough heat to counteract the endothermic reaction, and still make that jar warmer than the controls.

That is one powerhouse of a greenhouse effect!

Troubleshooting

If you have problems with this experiment there may be a few things to look at.

First, make sure your jars are being evenly heated. Depending on how you heat your jars, certain jars my be getting more heat than others. If you are using heat lamps, you may want to ensure you have one heat lamp per jar and place them equal distances from each jar.

If you used a standard thermometer, make sure your slit is not letting too much of the carbon dioxide out of the jar, it will take the heat with it.

When the reaction is triggered, make sure you act fast to get that plastic wrap on there and trap those gases!

Learning More About Climate Change

We really enjoy learning from NASA's incredible resources. They have an entire site dedicated to climate and kids called Climate Kids that is packed with learning resources.

If you have Netflix, definitely look for any documentaries by David Attenborough. My tweens and teens have watched many of his documentaries and learned so much.

Tackle more Earth Day and Environmental Sciences projects with your kids, with our collection of Earth Day Activities.

Bookshelf on Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect

Climate Change and Environmental Sciences Worksheets

Enjoy learning about our planet and start putting your lessons to work to protect our home. The more we know, the better we can all work to project our Earth.

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The Amoeba Sisters YouTube channel offer informative and engaging videos pertaining to biological topics and concepts. Their videos typically run for <10min and provide aesthetic and simplistic yet informative visuals to communicate the content.

Their videos on photosynthesis and respiration would be beneficial for this unit to reinforce learned concepts.

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Specifically, their videos on the Earth's spheres and what climate change is will be greatly beneficial for students.

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ABC Education offers a multitude of different resources on the topic of climate. The videos supplied (both interactive and non-interactive) offer credible and informative content, offering a summary of the contents in the description with some questions below, prompting students to apply the knowledge they have learned into action. Video length ranges from 2 - 15 minutes long.

Key videos to utilise would be from the 'Catalyst' series and the 'Australian Odyssey' series.

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Education Perfect (or EP) is a platform where students are empowered to engage with blended lessons and interactive activities, fostering independent learning and encouraging student agency. Differentiated lessons and tailored content can be assigned to meet each students needs, and formative and summative assessments can be assigned to check student progress and achievement.

This optimises teaching time, maximising efficiency regarding marking, concept reinforcement, practice and revision, offering teachers an amalgamation of interactive lessons designed and orientated to specific learning outcomes.

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Scootle is a fantastic resource for educators of all domains to obtain course-specific and relevant resources to incorporate within lesson plans and classwork.

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The following is an in-depth and extensive resource containing 5 lesson plans, including the learning outcomes, curriculum expectations, background information, teaching sequence, and extension activities.

This also includes worksheets and activities for collaborative practicals and individual work.

I would alter these lesson plans by editing the activities to incorporate 'Flip' tasks, and set tasks which require students to create an interesting poster advocating for recycling in their school, and a research activity utilising the local council websites to determine what the local representatives are doing to combat this pressing issue.

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Explore the global issue of Climate Change with KS2 using creative planning materials and resources you can depend on. Created by teachers in line with the national curriculum, you'll find engaging and age-appropriate climate change PowerPoints, activity packs, display posters and banners.

Teaching and learning about climate change: a KS2 approach

Climate change is an extremely hot-button issue at the moment. It's one of many, really. Chances are that, even at a KS2 level, children will have heard about it, and have some opinions forming about what to do about it.

But that doesn't mean it's not worth having a discussion about it. In fact, it makes it even more important to do so. We've prepared this range of climate change lesson plans and resources to help you to tackle this tricky subject with your students. You'll find a wealth of options in this selection in order to help you to thoroughly explore the topic.

Resources for teaching about climate change at KS2

Teaching about ongoing global issues can be complex. Twinkl has a varied range of regularly updated climate change lesson plans and primary resources, created by teachers, for teachers. This means you can accurately answer questions like 'what is climate change?' and 'how does reducing our plastic use help our environment?' with confidence. Discover the following resources to get your climate change lesson planning started:

For those curious, our Animals and Wildlife resources help KS2 children appreciate the world around them. They offer a great access point to this topic and work well alongside these climate change primary resources.

How can children help? Tackling climate change in KS2

Global warming and climate change is a global issue. Limiting the negative effects people have on the planet can feel daunting. The main ways to tackle climate change are big scale. There are, however, lots of small choices we can make everyday that will contribute to improving our planet's health and our own as a consequence.
No one is too small to make a difference - Greta Thunberg
Read on to discover small steps to tackle climate change.

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Double Helix is a CSIRO verified blog which curates a multitude of different brainteasers, quizzes, activities, prac ideas, and articles.

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Khan Academy offers an extensive library of courses in the areas of mathematics, science, economics, life skills, computing, and more. Specifically, there are middle school earth and space science courses, covering the topics of Weather and climate, The geosphere, Earth and society, etc, as well as offering Hands-on Earth and space science activities for teachers to organise for students. Each course includes sub-units, with videos (with summarised key points), practice questions, quizzes, unit tests, and course challenges to monitor content proficiency.

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Welcome to Middle school Earth and space science!

In this course, you'll explore the wonders of our planet and the universe beyond. From the water cycle to plate tectonics, learn about the different processes that shape our world.

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Welcome to Middle school Earth and space science!

In this course, you'll explore the wonders of our planet and the universe beyond. From the water cycle to plate tectonics, learn about the different processes that shape our world.

Learn more

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Middle school Earth and space science - NGSS | Khan Academy

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Learn Earth and space science using videos, articles, and NGSS-aligned practice. Review the fundamentals of space systems, weather and climate, Earth's history and systems, and human impacts.

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Science Teachers Association of Queensland

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Science Teachers Association of Queensland

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The following STAQ resource provides numerous classroom resources for online learning, as well as links to exclusive PD training and information.

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To help you on your online teaching/learning journey, here is a list of some of the online/distance learning materials that have come to our attention (organised alphabetically). STAQ do not endorse and have not quality assured their content

ABC education provides access to more than 4000 free videos, interactive resources and fun games mapped to the Australian curriculum.

The Australian Computing Academy and Grok Learning, Grok's courses and competitions

Astronomy and Telescope reviews a resource for people looking for solid, trusted advice and guidance on how to get started in amateur astronomy

Australian Reptile Park - the Australian Reptile Park's YouTube channel.

Crash Course Entertaining and educational videos organised by subject area. Suitable for secondary students. For younger students they have Crash Course Kids.

Double Helix blog Hands-on activities, quizzes and brainteasers, including some recent articles explaining COVID-19 for young readers.

iReviews an amazing collection of resources that teachers and parents can use to help their kids learn in a way they will love.

Khan Academy Instructional videos and practice exercises that allows students to study at their own pace. Organised by subject and year level. Suitable for students at all year levels.

ReefRelief are offering virtual lessons and supplemental materials including activities, videos and lesson outlines posted on their blog.

Science kids Fun science and technology games and activities for primary aged students.

Science Sparks Interactive website for the early years focussing on science experiments for young children.

Street Science offers Classroom kits everything you need to run a street science workshop including access to the Street Science digital learning lab. Online and hands-on learning all in one.

Please note that this is by no means a complete list of the materials/offers made available to teachers and students and STAQ do not endorse and have not quality assured their content

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Classroom Resources for Online Learning - Links - STAQ

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To help you on your online teaching/learning journey, here is a list of some of the online/distance learning materials that have come to our attention (organised alphabetically). STAQ do not endorse and have not quality assured their content ABC education provides access to more than 4000 free videos, interactive resources and fun games mapped to the Australian curriculum.

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General Capabilities for Digital Literacy

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General Capabilities for Digital Literacy

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Digital literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills students need to create, manage, communicate and investigate data, information and ideas, and solve problems. It assists students to work collaboratively at school and in their lives beyond school.

Digital literacy involves students critically identifying and appropriately selecting and using digital devices or systems, and learning to make the most of the technologies available to them. Students adapt to new ways of doing things as technologies evolve, and protect the safety of themselves and others in digital environments.

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Digital Literacy | V9 Australian Curriculum

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Digital literacy encompasses the knowledge and skills students need to create, manage, communicate and investigate data, information and ideas, and solve problems. It assists students to work collaboratively at school and in their lives beyond school. Digital literacy involves students critically identifying and appropriately selecting and using digital devices or systems, and learning to make the most of the technologies available to them.

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BrainPop is an engaging resource offering informative content through videos by the characters Tim and Moby. Comprehensive investigations, interactive activities, quizzes and relevant games are included to aide comprehension and retention of information.

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BrainPOP Science | Middle School Science

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Maximize your middle school science instruction with pre-packaged investigations and engineering projects designed using a scaffolded CER writing process.

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Blooket is a gamified learning platform where teachers host games through question sets and students answer on their own devices. This is an assessment-centered tool, specifically formative assessment.

This allows for competitive yet engaging learning, with a large variety of different gamemodes and question sets to choose from.

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Search and discover new sets from a large collection created by users.

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Science Lessons Archives - Australian Curriculum Lessons

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Flip is a website and free app with the goal of flipping traditional classroom learning. Students are encouraged to record, edit and share video assignments in response to the assigned topic. Educators can also comment on students text, audio-only or full video for comprehensive feedback and guidance. Additionally, video responses demonstrate individual learning progress and mastery, showing students metacognition for group assessments, and ultimately building their confidence through peer engagement via likes and comments.

This promotes peer-to-peer learning and allows students to verbalise their thought processes and opinions on the subject.

This allows classrooms to become more inclusive, informative, interactive and engaging!

Evidently, Flip will be a central and focal ICT resource used within the classroom!

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This is the dashboard for Flip, where multiple classes can be created and topics can be added and managed. A co-educator/teacher aid can also be added to the group with the educator role attached for extra permissions. Certain tasks can be scheduled to be assigned at a specific time, or set to just be visible to educators.

Educators can add students to the group via Google Classroom or via the code presented. Teachers can also view how many students are enrolled in the group, and upon clicking their profile can view the students responses, making observation of student participation seamless.

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This is an activity that will be assigned after students calculate their Ecological Footprint (resource found at: https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en).

As stipulated, students will discuss their results through a vlog, describing what is their highest consumption area and detail ways in which they can reduce their carbon footprint and how this will mitigate climate change.

This will encourage students to investigate ways to reduce their impact on the planet and explain how these action are mitigating climate change. This also allows students the opportunity to get creative, where they can enact a skit recording themselves recycling, cleaning up a beach, planting a tree, etc! Students can then view each others videos, comment and learn of different ways which can improve our environment.

This is a transformative teaching and learning tool which would not be possible without the use of ICTs, and encourages students to learn from each other and interact with each other!

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Lesson 3: Photosynthesis and Respiration

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Lesson 3: Photosynthesis and Respiration

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Also includes the Mini-Unit Overview and Pedagogical Focus at the bottom of the document

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MindMeister: Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming

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Create, share and collaboratively work on mind maps with MindMeister, the leading online mind mapping software. Includes apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.