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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.
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5 practicals
Investigating Science 11–12 · Earth and space
A scale model of the solar system on the school oval
Built to one scale for both sizes and distances, the solar system is specks separated by enormous gaps, something no page diagram can show.
Practical, model not builtLow riskLogging the strata in a rock cutting
A rock face gives qualitative observations (colour, structures) and quantitative ones (bed thickness, grain size, dip), and the principle of superposition turns the measured log into an inferred sequence of events.
PracticalMedium riskTesting the assumption that the Sun rises in the east
The Sun rises due east only at the equinoxes; on other dates the rising point swings north or south by an amount set by latitude and the Sun’s declination.
Practical, model not builtLow riskEarthquake-resistant design on a shake table: resonance, bracing and base isolation
A building sways most when the ground shakes near its natural frequency; bracing raises that frequency and base isolation lowers it, both moving the structure away from resonance as Newton’s second law predicts for a mass on a spring.
Practical, model not builtLow riskMeasuring the Earth with two shadows, the Eratosthenes method
Two shadow angles measured at local noon at places a known north–south distance apart give the Earth’s circumference by geometry, the method Eratosthenes chose because the Earth could not be measured directly.
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.