VCE - Maths & Science
Subject Specialist
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| Josephine Mansour | |
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| Craigieburn Campus Librarian | |
| Phone: | (03) 9308 4627 |
| Email: | jmansour@kangan.edu.au |
Highly Recommended Resources
- VCE help - VCE resources for students, parents and teachers
Websites
- ABC Science - covers all the science programmes shown on the ABC
- CSIRO - Australia's national science agency
- NASA - fun and interesting information about the planets and astronomy
- NOVA Science in the News - latest news items relating to scientific discovery
- Walter and Hall Institute of Medical Research - find out all the research and findings on diseases of our time
- Math online - sign up as a student to get real help with your maths
- Periodic table - an interactive chemical element table
- Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority - VCE information including past exams, exam timetables and study guides
- OH&S online videos - SafetyCare Montie has many safety programs which can be viewed, topics include fire awareness, personal protection, manual handling.
Catalogue
Search Library Catalogue - enter specific topics (e.g. biology, genetics, mathematics) in the keyword search box or look directly on the shelves at these numbers:
| Keywords | Shelf numbers |
|---|---|
| Mathematics | 510 |
| Statistics | 519 |
| Physics | 530 |
| Chemistry | 540 |
| Biology | 570 |
| Evolution | 575 |
| Plants (botany) | 580 |
| Animals (zoology) | 590 |
Online e.journals, Databases and Magazines
EBSCOhost Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre
Titles include: The Age, The Australian, AAP Australian National News Wire, New Scientist, Popular Science, Physics Today, Science World, Science Now, Scientific American, Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Australian Wildlife
Infotrac: General OneFile
Titles include: Human Biology, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, School Science and Mathematics
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
Contact your subject specialist to book an online database training session or click on EBSCOhost or click on Infotrac (Power Search)
Magazine
- New Scientist - 505 NEW
Dictionaries
Oxford Reference
(For off-campus access to online resources, please login here with your Kangan Institute student/staff login.)
- McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology - R 503 MCG
- New Penguin Dictionary of Science - R 503 NEW
- Visual Encyclopaedia of Science - R 503 VIS
- The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics - R 510.3 PEN
- The Penguin Dictionary of Statistics - R 519.503 NEL
- A Dictionary of Physics - R 530.03 DIC
- A Dictionary of Weights, Measures & Units - R 530.8103 FEN
- The Penguin Dictionary of Chemistry - R 540.3 PEN
- The Penguin Dictionary of Biology - R 570.3 THA
DVD/Videos
- Water - DVD 551.46 WAT
- Measuring Mass and Volume - DVD 530.8 MEA
- Classifying Living Things - V 570.12 CLA
- Nuclear Physics - V 539.7 NUC
- Phiguring Out Acids and Bases - V 541.3728 PHI
Search Library Catalogue - using the subject heading suggested above for additional DVD-ROMs.
