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Mathematics9 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Data displays: from objects to graphs, not built yetKindergarten to Year 4
  • Mass and capacity: balances and jugs, not built yetKindergarten to Year 6
  • Measuring length: same units, no gaps, not built yetKindergarten to Year 4
  • Patterns: finding the unit of repeat, not built yetKindergarten to Year 2
  • Sides and angles give a shape its namesKindergarten to Year 8
  • Ten-frames: seeing numbers as parts of a whole, not built yetKindergarten to Year 2
  • Angles as turns: right angles, protractors and degrees, not built yetYears 1–6
  • Area: from covering squares to length times width, not built yetYears 1–6
  • Arrays: multiplication as rows and columns, not built yetYears 1–6
  • Money: making amounts and giving change, not built yetYears 1–4
  • Odd and even: pairs with one left over, not built yetYears 1–4
  • Ten ones make one tenYears 1–4
  • The calendar: days, weeks, months and years, not built yetYears 1–2
  • The two hands of a clock move togetherYears 1–4

Years 3 to 6

  • A picture hides some faces, edges and verticesYears 3–8
  • Decimals: zooming in on the number line, not built yetYears 3–6
  • Elapsed time and 24-hour time on a timeline, not built yetYears 3–6
  • Every fraction has a place on the number lineYears 3–6
  • Reading scales: counting the gaps between marks, not built yetYears 3–6
  • Solving equations: keep the balance level, not built yetYears 3–8
  • Symmetry and transformations: slide, flip, turn, not built yetYears 3–6 and 9–10
  • Angle sums: triangles and polygons, not built yetYears 5–10
  • Cross-sections: slicing solids, not built yetYears 5–10
  • Factors and primes: rectangles from counters, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Integers: below zero on the number line, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Linear relationships: from a growing pattern to y = mx + c, not built yetYears 5–10
  • Misleading graphs: the truncated axis, not built yetYears 5–10
  • Nets of a cube: which ones fold, not built yetYears 5–6
  • Parallelograms and triangles: cut and rearrange, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Percentages: parts of a hundred, not built yetYears 5–8
  • The area model: from multiplying numbers to expanding brackets, not built yetYears 5–10
  • The mean: a balance point and fair share, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Two dice and the long runYears 5–10
  • Views of solids: front, side, top and isometric, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Volume of a prism, layer by layerYears 5–8

Years 7 to 10

  • Circles: unrolling the circumference, rearranging the area, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Distance-time graphs: the story of a walk, not built yetYears 7–10
  • Parallel lines: corresponding, alternate and co-interior angles, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Pythagoras' theorem: squares on the sides, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Rates and ratio: scaling up a drip, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Samples: how sample size changes the spread, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Bearings: directions as angles from north, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Box plots: five numbers that show a spread, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Circle theorems: the angle in a semicircle, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Congruence: which three facts fix a triangle, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Growth: adding the same or multiplying by the same, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Loans and annuities: balances over time, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Logarithmic scales: each step is ten times, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Measurement error: every reading has a range, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Networks: vertices, edges and Euler trails, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Non-right triangles: the sine and cosine rules, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Parabolas: how a, h and k move the curve, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Scatterplots: correlation and the line of best fit, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Similar figures: lengths by k, areas by k squared, volumes by k cubed, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Simultaneous equations: where two lines meet, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Sphere volume: Archimedes' two thirds by slicing, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Standard deviation: a typical distance from the mean, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Surds: why A4 paper is 210 by 297, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Surface area: unfolding a cylinder, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Tree diagrams: with and without replacement, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Trigonometric ratios: constant in similar triangles, read on the unit circle, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Volume of pyramids and conesYears 9–10

Years 11 to 12

  • A tangent's gradient is the limit of secant gradientsYears 11–12
  • Complex numbers: multiplying is rotating and scaling, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Continuous random variables: area is probability, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Critical path: the longest chain decides the finish, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Euler's number e: growing continuously, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Filling vessels: height against time, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Fractals: the longer your ruler, the shorter the coast, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Optimisation: the biggest box from a sheet, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Periodic models: tides and daylight as sine curves, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Proof by induction: the Tower of Hanoi, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Rotating a curve: volumes of solids, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Slope fields: seeing a differential equation, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The area under a curve: strips that close in, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The Galton board: from coin flips to a bell curve, not built yetYears 11–12

Beyond school

  • Fourier series: building any wave from sines, not built yetBeyond school
  • Matrices: transforming the plane, not built yetBeyond school
  • Taylor polynomials: curves that hug a function, not built yetBeyond school
Physics5 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Float or sink: it is not just how heavyKindergarten to Year 2 and Year 7–8
  • Materials: the property decides the job, not built yetKindergarten to Year 6
  • Pushes and pulls: a bigger push makes it go further, not built yetKindergarten to Year 2
  • Shadows: light travels in straight lines, not built yetYears 1–6
  • Sound: vibrations, pitch and loudness, not built yetYears 1–4 and 9–12

Years 3 to 6

  • Heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation, not built yetYears 3–8 and 11–12
  • Levers: balancing a seesaw with the law of moments, not built yetYears 3–8 and 11–12
  • Magnets: poles, forces at a distance and field lines, not built yetYears 3–8 and 11–12
  • Charge flows only around a complete loopYears 5–6 and 9–10
  • Falling: every mass speeds up alike under gravity, air pushes back, not built yetYears 5–10
  • Heating: specific heat and latent heat, not built yetYears 5–6 and 11–12
  • Light: reflection and refraction traced as rays, not built yetYears 5–12
  • Solar panels and wind turbines: angle and the cube law, not built yetYears 5–12

Years 7 to 10

  • Density: how much mass is packed in, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Energy transfer: a pendulum and a marble on a ramp, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Half-life: random decay, predictable halves, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Only a net force changes motionYears 7–10
  • Orbits: falling around a planet, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Ramps: splitting weight into components, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Springs: extension in proportion to load, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Static electricity: moving electrons by rubbing, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • The pendulum: what sets the time of a swing, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Acceleration is net force divided by massYears 9–12
  • Colour: white light split and filtered, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Electrical energy: power, time and the bill, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Electromagnetic induction: moving a magnet makes a current, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Energy efficiency: Sankey diagrams, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Forces come in pairs, one on each objectYears 9–10
  • Lenses: where the image forms, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Line spectra: electrons jumping between levels, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Ohm's law and I-V graphs, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Rutherford scattering: finding a tiny nucleus, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The Doppler effect: pitch of a moving source, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The electromagnetic spectrum and glowing hot objects, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The speed of sound: echoes and timing, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Waves: energy moves on, the medium stays, not built yetYears 9–12

Years 11 to 12

  • Alpha, beta and gamma: what stops each, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Chain reactions: one split triggers more, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Circular motion: the force points to the centre, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Electric fields: field lines and equipotentials, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Fluid flow: faster flow, lower pressure, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Interference: light through two slits, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Momentum in collisions: before equals after, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Polarisation: light through two filters, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Projectile motion: two independent motions, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Superposition: standing waves and beats, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The electron: cathode rays and quantised charge, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The inverse square law: spreading over area, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The motor effect: current in a magnetic field, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The photoelectric effect: light arrives in packets, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Time dilation: why cosmic muons reach the ground, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Vectors: adding velocities and displacements, not built yetYears 11–12
Chemistry4 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

Years 3 to 6

  • Rusting: iron, water and oxygen together, not built yetYears 3–8
  • Dissolving: solute, solvent and the solubility curve, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Galvanic cells: electrons flow from the more reactive metal, not built yetYears 5–6 and 11–12
  • Heating ice: where does the energy go?Years 5–8

Years 7 to 10

  • Combustion: fuel, oxygen and heat, not built yetYears 7–10
  • Distillation separates water from saltYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Elements, compounds and mixtures in particle diagrams, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Energy changes in reactions: exothermic and endothermic, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Acids, bases and the pH scale, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Atoms rearrange, and none are lostYears 9–12
  • Atoms shell by shell: the shape of the periodic table, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Bonding: transferring and sharing electrons, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Polymers: long chains from small units, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Rates of reaction: collisions that count, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Reactivity: a more reactive metal pushes out a less reactive one, not built yetYears 9–12

Years 11 to 12

  • Buffers: resisting a change in pH, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Colorimetry: concentration from colour, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Dynamic equilibrium and Le Chatelier's principle, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Gas laws: pressure, volume and temperature from particles, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Homologous series: one more CH₂ each step, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Isotopes and relative atomic mass, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Molecular shapes: electron pairs push apart, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Organic reaction pathways: a map of functional groups, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Precipitation: ions that will not stay dissolved, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Reading spectra: infrared, mass and NMR, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Spontaneity: enthalpy, entropy and temperature, not built yetYears 11–12
  • The mole: counting particles by weighing, not built yetYears 11–12
Biology1 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Classification: building a dichotomous key, not built yetKindergarten, Year 3–4 and Year 7–8
  • Life cycles: seed to plant, egg to beetle, not built yetKindergarten to Year 4
  • Plants: water up the xylem, out through the stomata, not built yetKindergarten to Year 2, Year 7–8 and Year 11–12
  • What plants need: light and water, not built yetYears 1–6

Years 3 to 6

  • Adaptations: features that help survival, not built yetYears 3–6
  • Food webs and the energy pyramid, not built yetYears 3–8
  • Flowers: parts, pollination and fertilisation, not built yetYears 5–6 and 9–12

Years 7 to 10

  • Diffusion and osmosis across a membrane, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Lungs: gas exchange across thin walls, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Photosynthesis and respiration: a gas balance in light and dark, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Plant cells have parts that animal cells lackYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Population growth: exponential start, limited finish, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Predator and prey: linked cycles, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Sampling populations: quadrats and mark-recapture, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • The heart and double circulation, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Cell division: mitosis and meiosis side by side, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Disease spread: the SIR model and herd immunity, not built yetYears 9–12
  • DNA: the double helix and how it copies, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Enzymes: shape, substrate and temperature, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Evidence for evolution: the same bones, different jobs, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Inheritance: Punnett squares and chance, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Microbes: invisible, everywhere, and reduced by washing, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Natural selection: who survives to breed, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Surface area to volume: why cells are small, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The eye: focusing and glasses, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The reflex arc: fast and automatic, not built yetYears 9–12

Years 11 to 12

  • Cooling by sweating and its limit, not built yetYears 11–12
  • From gene to protein, and what a mutation changes, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Gel electrophoresis: sorting DNA by size, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Haemoglobin: loading oxygen in the lungs, unloading in muscles, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Kidneys and dialysis: filtering the blood, not built yetYears 11–12
Earth and space2 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • The Moon is always half litYears 1–8
  • The night sky: stars wheel around the south celestial pole, not built yetYears 1–4 and 7–8
  • The solar system to scale: sizes and distances, not built yetYears 1–10
  • The Sun's path and shadows through a day, not built yetYears 1–8

Years 3 to 6

  • Seasons come from Earth's tiltYears 3–8
  • Weathering, erosion and deposition, not built yetYears 3–8
  • Measuring the Earth with two shadows, not built yetYears 5–8 and 11–12

Years 7 to 10

  • Deep time: 4600 million years on one line, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Earthquakes: P and S waves and finding the epicentre, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Eclipses: shadows in a line, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Inside the Earth: layers sorted by density, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Minerals: hardness, streak and lustre, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Plate boundaries: what happens where plates meet, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Rock layers and fossils: reading the order of events, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Slopes and shaking: angle of repose and liquefaction, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • The rock cycle: one rock becomes another, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Tides: the Moon's pull on the oceans, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Volcanoes: runny or sticky magma, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • What moves the plates: slab pull and mantle flow, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • The expanding universe: every galaxy moving apart, not built yetYears 9–12

Years 11 to 12

  • Stars: colour, brightness and the HR diagram, not built yetYears 11–12
  • Tsunamis: fast in deep water, tall near shore, not built yetYears 11–12
Environment and sustainability3 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Weather: rain, wind and temperature measured, not built yetKindergarten to Year 6

Years 3 to 6

Years 7 to 10

  • Groundwater fills the spaces in the rockYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Water treatment: from muddy to drinkable, not built yetYears 7–8 and 11–12
  • Ocean acidification: carbon dioxide into seawater, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Ocean currents: cold, salty water sinks, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Sea level: land ice and sea ice, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The carbon cycle: stores and flows, not built yetYears 9–12
  • The greenhouse effect: energy in, energy out, not built yetYears 9–12

Years 11 to 12

  • Milankovitch cycles: Earth's orbit and ice ages, not built yetYears 11–12
Geography

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • From a model to a map: the bird's-eye view, not built yetKindergarten to Year 4
  • Seasons as Country knows them: an Aboriginal seasonal calendar, not built yetYears 1–4

Years 3 to 6

  • Map scale and grid references, not built yetYears 3–8
  • Catchments: where the rain goes, and the flood peak, not built yetYears 5–8 and 11–12
  • Climate graphs: rainfall bars and temperature lines, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Contour lines: from a hill to a map, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Latitude, longitude and why flat maps stretch, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Urban heat: surfaces that store the Sun's energy, not built yetYears 5–8

Years 7 to 10

  • Coasts: longshore drift and groynes, not built yetYears 7–10
  • Dunes: wind, sand and plants, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Rivers: meanders, cut banks and deltas, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Thematic maps: choropleths, flows and buffers, not built yetYears 7–10
  • Population pyramids: a country's age structure, not built yetYears 9–10
Technologies1 free to try

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Systems: input, process, output, not built yetKindergarten to Year 4
  • Loops and branches: tracing a program, not built yetYears 1–4 and 7–8
  • Pixels: images as numbers, not built yetYears 1–4 and 7–8

Years 3 to 6

  • Algorithms: searching and sorting, counted step by step, not built yetYears 3–6 and 9–10
  • Passwords and ciphers: counting the guesses, not built yetYears 3–10
  • Structures: why triangles and deep beams, not built yetYears 3–6 and 9–10
  • Counting in binary: each place is worth doubleYears 5–8
  • Gears: trading speed for turning force, not built yetYears 5–8
  • Networks: messages in packets, not built yetYears 5–8

Years 7 to 10

  • Hydraulics: pressure passed through a liquid, not built yetYears 7–8
  • Compression: shorter codes for common patterns, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Databases: tables and queries, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Feedback control: a thermostat, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Logic gates: AND, OR and NOT from switches, not built yetYears 9–10
English

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Letter formation: where to start and which way to go, not built yetKindergarten to Year 4
  • Sound boxes: hearing and blending the sounds in a word, not built yetKindergarten to Year 2
  • Cohesion: the ties that hold a text together, not built yetYears 1–6
  • Sentence builder: main clauses and dependent clauses, not built yetYears 1–8
  • Word building: prefixes, bases and suffixes, not built yetYears 1–6

Years 3 to 6

  • Narrative structure: orientation, complication, resolution, not built yetYears 3–10
  • Modality: from might to must, not built yetYears 5–8

Years 7 to 10

  • Essay structure: an argument map, not built yetYears 7–12
  • Film language: shot size and camera angle, not built yetYears 7–12
Agriculture and food

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Germination: water, warmth and air, not built yetYears 1–2 and 7–10

Years 3 to 6

  • Yeast: living cells that make bread rise, not built yetYears 3–8 and 11–12

Years 7 to 10

  • Food safety: the temperature danger zone, not built yetYears 7–10
  • Emulsions: keeping oil and water mixed, not built yetYears 9–10
  • Fair trials: replication, randomisation and blinding, not built yetYears 9–12
  • Food energy: kilojoules on the label, not built yetYears 9–10

Years 11 to 12

  • Legumes: bacteria that fix nitrogen, not built yetYears 11–12
History

Kindergarten to Year 2

  • Timelines to scale: years, centuries and millennia, not built yetYears 1–8

Years 3 to 6

  • Maps that change over time, not built yetYears 5–8
Music

Years 3 to 6

  • Note values: how long each note lasts, and how notes fill a bar, not built yetYears 3–8
Languages

Years 7 to 10

  • Italian nouns: gender, number and the words that agree, not built yetYears 7–10

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