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AERO Ochre Maths Year 3 Unit 1 - Place value

This sequence of ten lessons will teach students about four-digit numbers and their properties.

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AERO Ochre Maths Year 4 Unit 1 - Using five-digit numbers

This sequence of 10 lessons will teach students about five-digit numbers and their properties.

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AERO Ochre Maths Year 6 Unit 1 - Integers and decimals

This sequence of 10 lessons will enable students to understand seven-digit numbers as well as integers and decimals.

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AERO Ochre Maths Year 6 Unit 2 - Fractions

This sequence of 10 lessons teaches students about fractions, and their relationship with whole numbers and decimals.

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AERO Ochre Maths Year 5 Unit 3 - 2D perimeter and area

This sequence of five lessons teaches students about perimeter and area of shapes, as well as how to calculate them.

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AERO Ochre Science Year 7 Unit 1 - Particles

This sequence of 10 lessons focuses on building students' knowledge of particles and states of matter. They will learn about the differences in states of matter and the transition between them.

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AERO Ochre Science Year 10 Unit 2 - Atomic structures

In this sequence of 15 lessons students will learn about atoms and how they build to make elements and compounds. The unit also explores the periodic table and how elements react to each other.

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AERO Ochre Science Year 8 Unit 1 - Cells, tissues and organs

This sequence of 15 lessons will teach students about cells, tissues and organs, and how they function in plants and animals.

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AERO Ochre Science Year 10 Unit 1 - Genetics

In this sequence of 15 lessons students will learn about how genetics and DNA are inherited from parents in fertilisation, as well as how DNA replicates itself.

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AERO Ochre Science Year 9 Unit 1 - Light and sound

This sequence of 15 lessons describes the properties of light and sound, and how they interact with the world around us.

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AERO Ochre Science Year 7 Unit 2 - Food webs

This sequence of five lessons has students learn about food webs and how the changing environment can effect them.

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Introduction to fossils

This video demonstrates different types of fossils, explains how fossils form and discusses why fossils why fossils are so useful for learning about life on Earth.

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AERO Ochre English Year 5 Unit 1 - King Arthur: Narrative writing

This sequence of fifteen lessons supports students to unpack the features of a medieval tale. They examine a chapter of the story of King Arthur to identify key features of the text and then use them as models to compose a tale of their own.

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Identifying Minerals - Streak Test

This short video demonstrates how to determine the streak colour of a mineral sample. The video shows how to rub a mineral sample across a streak plate, and how to use a streak colour chart to help identify a mineral. The video also shows the difference in streak colour for pyrite (fool's gold) and real gold.

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The Geology of Minecraft

This short video discusses bedrock, obsidian and redstone using real rock samples and references to the Minecraft game.

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Exploring Australia's Seafloor

This video, presented by marine ecologist Dr Rachel Przeslawski, explores how marine scientists make maps of the seafloor and what these maps are used for. Dr Przeslawski talks about her experiences as a marine scientist involved with making maps from ships and discovering the depth, shape and hardness of the sea floor. ...

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Why are river pebbles round? Sugar shake: erosion experiment

This short video introduces the concepts of weathering and erosion by investigating why river pebbles are often rounded. Students can undertake an activity which demonstrates the process of erosion using sugar cubes. They are asked to predict what might happen (a hypothesis) and then observe what does happen and relate ...

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Identifying Minerals - Determining Density

This short video demonstrates how to determine the density of a mineral sample. The video explains how to calculate density, then shows students how accurately measure the mass and volume of a mineral sample.

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Fossil Shell Stories

This video presents examples of shell fossils that help us to understand where oceans were located in Australia millions of years ago. The shells lived in shallow marine environments before they died and became part of the rocks formed from sand and silt at the bottom of the water. Brachiopods from Woolshed Creek in Canberra ...

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Understanding the National Earthquake Alerts Centre

This video introduces the National Earthquake Alerts Centre. The video explains that earthquakes are detected by a network of seismometers; each station sends seismic information for analysis and checking by seismologists on duty. The video describes the types of wave forms in earthquakes and the sequence of events in ...