Close message Scootle has stopped supporting resources that use the Adobe Flash plug-in from 18 Dec 2020. Learning paths that include these resources will have alerts to notify teachers and students that one or more of the resources will be unavailable. Click here for more info.

Search results

Refine by resource type

Refine by year level


    Refine by learning area


    Refine by topic

    Main topic
    • No suggestions
    Specific topic
    • No suggestions
    Related topic

    Your search returned 70 results

    Listed under:  Health  >  Psychology  >  Cognition  >  Creativity  >  Innovation
    Text

    Treetop kangaroos

    • TLF-IDM016496

    This ABC In Depth feature article includes everything you wanted or needed to know about tree kangaroos. This article describes their reproduction, classification, adaptations and issues relating to their conservation.

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Solar Prints

    • TLF-IDM016706

    This 6 minute video segment from Catalyst is an excellent introduction to the science behind photovoltaics. A useful comparison of the efficiency of energy conversion. Discussion of other issues considered in producing devices to use renewable energy to make electricity.

    View detailsView resource
    Text

    Solar wind gives asteroids a tanning

    • TLF-IDM016726

    This brief ABC News in Science article from 2009 explains that asteroids become redder the longer they stay out in the sun because of the solar wind. Scientists are using this to try to find our more about our planetary origins.

    View detailsView resource
    Interactive

    Thermal comfort – sustainability action process (Years 7–10)

    • TLF-IDM020885

    This thermal comfort learning resource will guide students through an extended school based investigation. Students will develop and implement a chosen sustainability action and then evaluate and reflect on their success and their learning.

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Waratah Australis Nursery (flowers) – Batlow, New South Wales

    • TLF-IDM019382

    This is a video about plant breeder and nursery owner Brian Fitzpatrick and his work of breeding waratahs. It shows scenes of his activities in the Waratah Australis Nursery as he speaks of the magnificence of waratahs; the stages in the breeding process including hand-pollination and the production of 12,000 seedlings ...

    View detailsView resource
    Online

    There can only be one

    • TLF-IDM021029

    In this lesson sequence students write a simple suite of programs that can be used to facilitate an S.R.C. election though the collection and processing of data. It assumes that students have been introduced to Python programming language.

    View detailsView resource
    Online

    Everything is numbers!

    • TLF-IDM021032

    In this sequence students learn how the binary number system works, how we can represent text using binary numbers and learn one of the representations of the standard English alphabet used by computers. They look at how the same concepts apply to non-text data and analyse the effectiveness of some binary representation ...

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Dingo secrets

    • TLF-IDM016205

    This 9 minute video segment from Catalyst shows a biologist is finding out about how a family of multi-coloured dingoes is challenging our very idea of these animals. Technology has been invaluable in learning how young dingoes are taught adult behaviour and survival behaviours of the pack.

    View detailsView resource
    Audio

    Diabetes type 2 cured by surgery ABC Radio national

    • TLF-IDM015312

    Download the audio or view the transcript of this ABC radio program. It is an excellent example of how approaching a problem from a different perspective and with an open mind may result in an amazing solution. Richard Stubbs, and New Zealand scientist, claims type 2 diabetes is a disease of the gut. If his hypothesis is ...

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Coal Gas

    • TLF-IDM016742

    This 12 minute video segment from Catalyst outlines how for decades, scientists have worked to develop technologies that can unlock the energy from coal while reducing the risks of digging it up and burning it. Now entirely new industries are booming as they tap into coal seams either too gassy or too deep to be mined by ...

    View detailsView resource
    Interactive

    Science Talk 2008

    • TLF-IDM016366

    An online resource with interviews and master classes with many of Australia's prominent scientists. Interviews with eight scientists in areas of astronomy, marine biology, bio-chemistry related to medical research, chemistry related to materials science, astro-imaging, palaeontology, climate change science and psychology ...

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Inca trails

    • TLF-IDM016613

    This 10 minute video segment from Catalyst how a group of Australian archaeologists have studied evidence of a network of roads and associated ruins that were once part of the Inca civilisation.

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Cracked soils

    • TLF-IDM016422

    This brief video segment from Catalyst demonstrates how scientists have developed probes to measure the water content of soils and therefore monitor the effectiveness of irrigation and the efficiency of water usage.

    View detailsView resource
    Interactive

    Science Talk 2007: Vaughan Macefield

    • TLF-IDM016453

    An interview and lab tour with Vaughan Macefield, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Vaughan talks to students and their teacher from Quakers Hill High School about his work studying nerves and their function in the human body.

    View detailsView resource
    Interactive

    Science talk 2007: Adam Cawley

    • TLF-IDM016656

    An interview with Adam Cawley, a chemist and scientist from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, who is an expert in drug testing in sport. Adam talks to a teacher from Killara High School about working as a chemist, and the challenges in drug testing.

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Rat Nav

    • TLF-IDM016483

    This 5 minute video segment from Catalyst shows how University of Queensland scientists have created a computer program which mimics the way a rat navigates, in the hope of one day giving future robotic vehicles the ability to explore and map their environments by themselves.

    View detailsView resource
    Text

    Species on the move

    • TLF-IDM016691

    This ABC In Depth feature article presents arguments about moving vulnerable species to cooler climates in advance of climate change is a controversial strategy, and whether it could be the best way of ensuring their survival.

    View detailsView resource
    Audio

    CERN legend stuff of angels and demons

    • TLF-IDM016702

    This ABC article or podcast by Dr Karl describes and outlines the role of the particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider and how it is helping to research the nature of mass. This article is dated (2008) as some significant results from the Large Hadron Collider have since been announced.

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    Eco Farming

    • TLF-IDM016561

    This six and a half minute video segment from Catalyst provides an example of a new strategy to balance human activities and needs with the maintenance of a quality and sustainable environment. Viewers will discover how EcoTender, a land management scheme being trialled by the Victorian Government, is combining science ...

    View detailsView resource
    Video

    GM Bananas

    • TLF-IDM016789

    This 8 minute video segment from Catalyst explains how genetically modified bananas could be the answer to malnutrition in developing countries. Botanists in Queensland are developing genetically modified bananas that can boost vitamin and mineral content and create disease resistant varieties. Issues of lack of genetic ...

    View detailsView resource