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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.

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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.

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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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A practical is carried out at the bench, in the classroom or outdoors. A practical with its model not built stands on its own; the page says where a step mentions the model. A calculation and data practical works from published figures by hand, with a calculator or in a spreadsheet. No Lab page includes an interactive model; the Concept Studio holds the demonstrations.

3 practicals

Agriculture and food · Animal production

  1. Agriculture and Food 7–12 · Years 9–10

    Egg quality: Haugh units, air cell depth and storage temperature

    As an egg ages its thick white thins and its air cell deepens, so measuring albumen height against egg mass gives the Haugh unit, the interior-quality measure used in United States grading and in egg research. Australian egg quality assurance instead runs under Egg Standards of Australia, a certification based on HACCP principles that sets no albumen grade, so the class measures interior quality by one scheme and compares it with the way the Australian industry assures quality.

    Practical, model not builtLow risk
  2. Agriculture and Food 7–12 · Years 9–10

    Incubating fertile eggs and candling the developing embryo

    A fertile egg develops into a chick over 19 to 21 days only while it is kept warm, humid and turned, and candling shows the embryo, its blood vessels and the growing air cell without opening the egg.

    PracticalMedium risk
  3. Agriculture and Food 7–12 · Years 11–12

    Formulating a meat chicken ration for protein and energy (Pearson square)

    Mixing a low-protein energy grain with a high-protein meal in the right proportions meets a protein target, and checking the mixture's energy shows whether the ration also meets the energy requirement for that stage of growth.

    Calculation and dataLow risk

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