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956 practicals from Kindergarten to Year 12, in 9 subjects. A practical gives the idea, what you need, the steps, what you should see and a safety card. A teacher-led practical gives the idea and its hazards; its method is for tutors on the learning platform.
Review
Reviewed before publication (owner’s confirmation, 24 September 2026). That covers every practical here, and a practical’s page lists the sources its author read.
A safety card on every page
The risk, who supervises and the hazards. The 38 teacher-led practicals show their idea and hazards here; their materials, steps and sources, and any result, control or note that states a number or an amount, are for tutors and administrators on the learning platform.
School laboratory, not for home
207 practicals are medium or high risk. Each says so on its page: In a school laboratory, with a teacher supervising, under the school's risk assessment. Not for home.
Curriculum references
Each practical lists the NSW syllabus outcomes and Australian Curriculum v9 codes it supports. They are references, not a verified or complete curriculum alignment.
Find a practical
3 practicals
Investigating Science 11–12 · Physics · Energy and heat
A model house: testing wall and window materials for heat loss
A small model house and a heat-loss equation both predict how building materials change indoor temperature, and the model’s limits (scale, no sun, no draughts) are as instructive as its results.
Practical, model not builtLow riskConservation of energy in a pendulum measured with a light gate
The law of conservation of energy predicts a pendulum bob’s speed at the bottom of its swing from the height it was released, whatever its mass.
Practical, model not builtLow riskEnergy transfer in a bounce: tennis ball rebound against the ITF standard
Energy is conserved but not kept as motion: a bouncing ball returns only part of its gravitational energy, and a regulation tennis ball must lose between about 42 and 47 per cent of it in each bounce.
Practical, model not builtLow risk
For tutors and administrators
The materials and steps of every teacher-led practical are on the learning platform, with the safety card first. Sign in with a tutor or administrator account to read them.