Activities
Environmental Indicators
In this practical activity, you will have the opportunity to expore the use of environmental indicators in your own school. Expand on this and it can be a CAS project. This activity links very well to...
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Modelling Feedback
In this practical activity, we will practice basic scientific skills, such as measurement, graph plotting and modelling. This activity should allow you to have students practice using simple laboratory...
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Modelling Negative Feedback
Here Here is a potential response to the modelling feedback exercise. Modelling Feedback ...
Assessment
Virtual Labs
On this page, I have gathered together useful virtual labs. At the moment (2025) they are all free to use. I know some teachers struggle to resource the practical nature of this course or are less familiar...
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1.2 Measuring Change in an Emerging System
In this practical activity, we will measure a system to see how it develops over time, observing if new properties emerge that wouldn't have existed if the components were operating separately. This will...
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Candle as a System - Possible Solution
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1.2 Burning Candle as a System
This practical activity uses the burning of a candle to model a system. It also helps with variable identification. Burning Candles as a System Student Task A candle can be used as a simple model of...
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Zugersee as a System
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1.2 Drawing A Local System
In this practical activity, you will practice drawing a system diagram for an example local to you. This is an activity to introduce students to drawing a system diagram. Depending on your situation,...
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Controlled Experiments and Modelling a System
In this introductory experiment, you will design an experiment to test the effect of one factor on the germination and growth of cat grass seeds. The aim is to encourage you to think about systems and...