Teacher Resources – Activities and Experiments

This page provides experiments and activity ideas to supplement classroom science and maths teaching around the theme of ‘Fireballs in the Sky’. Experiments can be used individually or as the whole unit to engage students in science and maths.

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Resources such as recipes and worksheets are available to photocopy alongside each activity. You’ll also find the FAQs in the about section on this site very useful.

The Australian Curriculum emphasises the use of the scientific method and understanding the endeavour of scientists themselves. Each topic in this book is set in Bybee’s 5Es model of science learning and comes with a hands-on element.This will allow you to engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate the topic with your students. Space Rocks targets students ages four to seven. The activities in this unit may be scaled up or used as a warm up for the Origins unit lessons, designed for ages eight to twelve.

Fireballs Teacher Resource Book

Alternatively, each link below will open the pdf document of the lesson or associated materials in your browser, which you can then download.