Food Web Explorer
Explore real, location-specific food webs, build food chains, predict how a change ripples through a web, and test the model against observations from a real event (the…
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Year 7 interactive teaching resources
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Biology
Monarch Migration & Ecosystems Explorer
Use real monarch observations and long-term monitoring data to investigate seasonal migration, population change, and relationships between biotic and abiotic factors.
Sea Turtle Migration & Survival
Investigate real satellite-tracking data from green sea turtles to explore migration, habitat use and marine conservation. Follow individual turtles on an interactive…
Chemistry
States of Matter Investigation
Students investigate how solids, liquids and gases differ by comparing particle arrangements and movement. The guided investigation uses heating and phase changes to…
Civics & Citizenship
Government & Democracy Explorer
Compare how Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and India turn votes into representation, government and laws. Explore institutions, form parliamentary…
Digital Technologies
Binary Data Lab
Investigate how text and images are represented as binary data. Flip bits, edit pixel values, compare resolution and colour depth, test lossless compression and optimise…
Internet Network Explorer
Explore how data travels through the global Internet. Send data between locations, inspect the route through interconnected networks, break connections and observe how…
Machine Learning Explorer
Train and test a transparent machine-learning classifier using real Palmer Penguins measurements. Choose features, change k, inspect nearest neighbours and investigate…
Earth & Space Sciences
Solar System Explorer
A canvas-based Solar System explorer with animated orbits, selectable planets, simplified scale, planetary classifications and key school-level facts.
Weather & Climate Explorer
Explore 20 years of real temperature and rainfall data across Australia, the United States and Europe. Compare places, investigate seasonal patterns and examine change…
Geography
Water Security Explorer
Explore global water stress using real Aqueduct data and investigate why water scarcity differs between places. Compare baseline and future water-stress scenarios,…
History
Ancient Egypt Evidence Explorer
Explore Ancient Egypt through real archaeological and historical evidence. Investigate settlements and sites along the Nile, compare historical chronology with dating…
Ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta
Compare Athens and Sparta through geography, key groups, beliefs and practices, contacts and conflicts, significant individuals and primary sources. Students weigh the…
Deep Time Australia Explorer
Explore more than 65,000 years of Australian history through archaeological evidence, changing landscapes, First Nations technologies and knowledge systems, and the…
Pompeii: The Last 24 Hours
Investigate the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the experience of Pompeii through a sequence of historical events and evidence. Students evaluate sources and distinguish…
Roman Empire Expansion Explorer
Explore how Roman territorial control changed from the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire using historical province and regional boundaries. Move through time,…
Mathematics
Area Units Visualiser
Predict how many small squares fit in a larger one and fill it row by row, practise conversions on a km² → mm² ladder, and compare real objects with 1 m², 1 ha and 1 km².
Circle Area Investigation
Investigate where the formula A = πr² comes from by progressively slicing a circle into sectors and rearranging them into a rectangle-like shape. Students work through a…
Congruence Investigation
Investigate congruence through translations, rotations and reflections. Students work through a structured sequence identifying corresponding sides and angles,…
Park Site Designer
Place and resize rectangles and right-angled triangles on a scaled site to meet minimum areas and a fence budget, then calculate and check every area and perimeter.
Perimeter Area Investigation
An investigation where students compare perimeter and area across rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, trapeziums, rhombuses, kites, circles and composite shapes,…
Physics
Acceleration Investigation
A guided ramp investigation in which students compare repeated trials and calculate acceleration for different slopes.
Average Speed Investigation
A guided investigation in which students measure a moving car using manual stopwatch trials, calculate mean time and average speed, identify anomalous results and…
Hooke's Law: Guided Investigation
A step-by-step version of the classic spring-extension practical. Students calculate extensions from ruler readings, plot a graph, identify the limit of proportionality…
Hooke's Law: Spring Explorer
Drag a load slider to stretch a spring, a copper wire or a rubber band, and watch the force–extension graph plot live — including the limit of proportionality, the…
Newton's First Law Explorer
A canvas-based explorer where students investigate inertia, balanced and unbalanced forces, friction, initial velocity and constant motion.
Newton's Laws Challenge
A mixed canvas-based challenge covering law classification, balanced forces, F = ma calculations and third-law force-pair identification.
Newton's Third Law Explorer
A canvas-based explorer showing equal and opposite force pairs across pushes, collisions, swimming and rocket motion.
Velocity–Time Graph Explorer
Students connect animated motion with velocity–time graphs and investigate constant velocity, acceleration, deceleration and reversal of direction.