Science learning resources

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Early Stage 1 and Stage 1

Australian animals learning journey

Follow this Australian animals learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of Australian animals.

Activities
Worksheets

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Dinosaurs unit

Follow this Dinosaurs unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of dinosaurs and fossils.

Science
Early Stage 1 – Stage 1

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Make your own dino-rama

Bring the dinosaurs back to life by making your own dino-rama at home or in the classroom!

Worksheet

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Birds conversation starters

Have you ever danced like a bird? Use our Birds conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.

Self-led
All ages

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Dinosaurs conversation starters

If you were a dinosaur for a day, what would you do? Use our Dinosaurs conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with this exhibition.

Self-led
All ages

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Make your own impression fossil

Learn how to make your own impression fossil at home or in the classroom.

Children and families
Early years
Primary school

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Make your own frog mask

Discover the features of frogs that help them survive and make your very own frog mask.

Worksheet
Craft activity

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Stage 2

Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year conversation starters

Why do you think people like taking photos of nature? Use these conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Self-led
All ages

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Make your own butterfly envelope

Make your own butterfly envelope for your newly collected and identified species.

Primary school

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Make your own pocket volcano

Watch this video to learn what happens inside a volcano just before it erupts and make your own pocket volcano in the classroom or at home!

Children and families
Primary school
Secondary school

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Investigating the Winton Trackway

Become a palaeontologist and investigate fossilised dinosaur footprints.

Children and families
Primary school

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What are some Australian dinosaurs?

Download a series of posters and learn about the dinosaurs that once roamed Australia.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Whales find-a-word

What can you discover about whales? Complete our find-a-word and dot-to-dot activities from the Whales | Tohorā exhibition to learn more about these beautiful mammals.

Children and families
Early years
Primary school

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What are some Australian habitats?

Explore a variety of Australian habitats and use the habitat illustrations for activities within your class.

Children and families
Primary school

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Make your own climbing spider

Learn about the adaptations of the different groups of spiders – hunters, weavers and burrowers – then colour in and cut out a St Andrew's Cross Spider and make it climb up a piece of string!

Primary school

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Spider crossword

Learn the scientific names related to spiders, their classification and their adaptations.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Wild Planet and Surviving Australia conversation starters

Strike an animal pose! Use our Wild Planet & Surviving Australia conversation starters for fun suggestions and prompts for how to engage with these exhibitions.

Self-led
All ages

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Stage 3

Animal adaptations learning journey

Follow this learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of animal adaptations and classification.

Science
Stages 2–3

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Sleek Geeks videos

Sponsored by the University of Sydney, the Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize is back for 2025. The theme is 'above and below' so aim high and dive deep to find the topic that speaks to you!

Videos
Inquiry questions

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Future Now: Primary unit

Follow this unit to learn about positive solutions for the future that will help tackle the impacts of climate change.

Climate change, Science
Stage 3

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Sharks: Primary unit

Follow this unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of shark features, the environments they live in and how we treat them.

Science, First Nations, Pasifika, Geography
Stages 2–3

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Minerals: Primary unit

Follow this unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of minerals.

Science and Technology, Earth and Space, English
Stages 2–3

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A virtual visit behind the scenes in Palaeontology

Explore some of the amazing galleries in virtual reality or 360 and go behind the scenes to meet some of our experts and learn about fossils, classification and adaptations.

Primary school
Secondary school

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How are dinosaur fossils formed?

Watch this animation to understand how dinosaurs became fossils over time.

Children and families
Early years
Primary school

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What is our gas problem?

Watch a short animation that explains what greenhouses gases are, where they come from and why they can be a big problem.

Primary school

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Jigsaw Earth

Fit the Earth back together and get to know the tectonic plates, natural disasters and continental drift of our planet with this downloadable puzzle.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Learn how to classify spiders

What's the difference between a burrower, weaver and hunter? Sort pictures of spiders into these three groups and investigate the differences between spider species.

Primary school

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The features of spiders

Use the downloadable spider diagram to label the main features and body parts of a spider and discuss their functions.

Primary school

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Dinosaurs exhibition insights

Use our Dinosaurs exhibition insights to help your students develop scientific inquiry skills through connecting with key specimens on display.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Changing Climate exhibition insights

Engage with our new exhibition focusing on climate change, sustainability and renewable energy with the Changing Climate exhibition insights.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Surviving Australia exhibition insights

Use the Surviving Australia exhibition insights to learn about the fascinating and sometimes scary animals living in our waterways, oceans, mountains and deserts.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Wild Planet exhibition insights

Explore the features and habitats of the weird and wonderful creatures in the Wild Planet gallery using these exhibition insights.

Primary school
Secondary school

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What is taxidermy?

Follow this digital story to learn about the taxidermy process used to prepare a Brushtail Possum for display.

Primary school
Secondary school
Tertiary

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Stage 4

Climate change learning journey

Follow this learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of climate change.

Climate change, Geography
Stages 4–5

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Australia through time learning journey

Follow this learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of evolution and Australia through time.

Science, First Nations, English
Stages 4–6

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Minerals: Secondary unit

Follow this minerals unit to deepen your knowledge and understanding of minerals.

Science, Earth and Space
Stages 4–6

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Climate change – causes, impacts and solutions

Watch a series of videos that discuss the causes and impacts of, and solutions to climate change, from the perspectives of different professionals and community members.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Capturing Climate Change for educators

Engage with our online exhibition Capturing Climate Change and discuss the causes and effects of, and solutions to, climate change.

Primary school
Secondary school

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Leaf litter dichotomous key

Go exploring through your local leaf litter and use this dichotomous key to identify invertebrates you find!

Primary school
Secondary school

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Learn how to classify rocks

Can you tell the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Use this series of posters to learn how to classify rocks and tell the difference between them!

Secondary school

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FrogID learning journey

Follow this learning journey to learn from our experts and discover Australian frogs around where you live.

Science, Technology
Stages 4–5

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Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family learning journey: Secondary

Follow our Tyrannosaurs – Meet the Family learning journey to deepen your knowledge and understanding of tyrannosaurs. This exhibition has now ended and is currently touring the world.

Science
Stages 4–6

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Bugwise

Bugwise brings the world of invertebrates to your students, engaging them in real science in local environments. Find out what insects and spiders you are sharing your backyard with and why they are vitally important to a healthy planet.

Learning factsheets

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Stage 5

Learn about climate change with Mt Resilience

Mt Resilience is an interactive webAR experience that reveals a detailed 3D model of a town designed to visualise climate and disaster preparedness.

Climate and disaster preparedness concepts

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Impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef

Watch Dr Anne Hoggett and Dr Lyle Vail share their observations of recent bleaching and coral recovery around Lizard Island.

Secondary school

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Sharks: Secondary unit

Follow this unit to deepen your secondary students’ knowledge and understanding of the importance of sharks to the ecosystems they live in and the threats to their survival.

Science, Climate change
Stages 4–5

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Learn how to classify fossils

Learn the difference between impression, mineralised and trace fossils and begin to classify your specimens.

Secondary school

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Student-led filmmaking and creating an exhibition review

Watch an exhibition review of our Wild Planet exhibition created by Elderslie High School students to inspire your students to create their own review using film, photographs, and/or text.

Primary School
Secondary School

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Stage 6

Virtual autopsy

Follow a human autopsy process from start to finish including an external examination, opening the body, viewing internal organs, removing the organs and weighing them, removing the brain, replacing all organs and closing the body.

Step by step demonstration

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DNA barcoding

These eight DNA barcoding modules consist of videos, 3D animations and worksheets about the application of technology in the lab, including the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing.

Unit of work
Videos
Worksheets

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The evolution of the platypus

Learn about the different platypus fossils that have been discovered in Australia and South America and compare their features.

Secondary school
Tertiary
Stage 6 Biology

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Charles Darwin and the antlion

Read excerpts from Charles Darwin's diary when he was in Australia and learn about some of his first insights into evolution by natural selection.

Secondary school

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Echidna research in the Mammalogy collection

Watch a video about how echidnas in the Australian Museum's Mammalogy collection are used in research.

Primary school
Secondary school
Tertiary

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Collecting evidence

This self-led activity ask students to identify a mystery animal in the Australian Museum collection, based on evidence from comparative anatomy and comparative biochemistry.

Secondary school
Tertiary

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