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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.
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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
Mathematics 11–12 · Mathematics · Vectors and motion
Projectile motion: a marble off the table and a thrown ball on video
Horizontal motion at constant velocity and vertical motion under constant gravity combine into a parabola whose range and flight time follow from the launch speed and angle.
Practical, model not builtLow riskA thrown ball as a vector-parametrised curve, with skew lines measured in the room
A position vector that depends on a parameter traces a curve, while a point and a direction vector describe a straight line, and the scalar product then settles how far a point lies from a line and whether two lines in three dimensions meet or pass each other.
Practical, model not builtLow riskA vector walk: adding displacements on bearings
Two legs walked on bearings add as vectors, and the resultant displacement the learner tapes back to the start is the vector sum, not the sum of the leg lengths.
Practical, model not builtLow riskMass on a spring and a conical pendulum: period against mass, radius and angle
A restoring force proportional to displacement gives simple harmonic motion whose period depends on the mass and the stiffness and not on the amplitude, and resolving the tension in a whirled line gives a conical pendulum whose period depends on the line length and the cone angle and not on the mass.
Practical, model not builtLow riskTwo measured tones added as phasors: the Argand plane on a phone oscilloscope
Two tones of the same frequency add like two complex numbers: the modulus of the sum is the amplitude a microphone reads and its argument is the phase of the combined wave, so head-to-tail addition on the Argand plane predicts a measurement.
Practical, model not builtLow risk
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