The new editions of the Jacaranda VCE Physics series form a complete suite of contemporary resources, designed to inspire curiosity and scientific investigation while preparing your students for VCE success. Refreshed content aligns to the Study Design, and now includes comprehensive teacher support so you can teach your class, your way.
Why choose Jacaranda VCE Physics:
Over the past few years we’ve been out in schools talking to teachers to learn what’s important to you – our new editions are based off this feedback.
Watch this video to learn about our new teacher support, exam preparation tools, teacher-led videos and more!
Encouraging inquiry through scientific investigation
An interactive and engaging resource suite utilising a range of rich media, including new teacher-led videos of practical experiments and sample problems – providing students with more opportunities to consolidate concepts and deepen their understanding.
Developing independent lifelong learners
Now available in learnON, students receive immediate feedback for every question and access to exemplary responses. Their growth, progress and performance are automatically tracked, making it easy to highlight areas of strengths and weakness and focus study.
Unrivalled exam and assessment preparation
Prepare your students for all forms of success with access to every VCAA exam question since 2006, and a range of practice SACs – comprehensively supported with exemplary responses and marking guides.
Unmatched teacher support
A new comprehensive range of teacher support materials, including; work programs, curriculum grids, answers to every question, detailed practical investigation support and quarantined topic tests and SACs.
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Series features
The latest editions of Jacaranda’s VCE Physics series include these features:
- Aligned to the VCE Physics Study Design (2016-2022), with content explicitly structured to all the key knowledge and key skills
- In learnON, you get greater visibility into student progress and performance, allowing you to easily tailor lesson plans and create custom tests
- Tailored exercise sets at the end of every subtopic, providing students the opportunity to test their knowledge
- Detailed topic and Area of Study reviews, providing students with opportunities for revision with key concept summaries, key terms, investigation and an extensive range of questions and an offline printable studyON booklets with past VCE questions
- New printable Practical Investigation logbook, with teacher-led videos
- A dedicated Practical Investigations topic designed to enhance skills in scientific methodology with links to Key Science Skills, conducting practical investigations and communicating through scientific reports
- Enhanced teacher support, including;
- work programs, curriculum grids and teaching advice
- practical investigation support, with laboratory information, risk assessments, expected results and demonstrative videos
- quarantined tests and SACs complete with worked solutions, exemplary responses and marking rubrics
- learnON provides visibility into student progress and performance, allowing you to customise lessons, tests and assessments
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Formats
Jacaranda provides a range of format options to allow teachers to teach their class their way.
Print
Printed textbook with free digital code insideDigital
learnON is our immersive and flexible digital learning platform.PDF
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Authors
Dan O’Keefe
Graeme Lofts
Peter Pentland
Ross Phillips
Coyle
Rosenbrock
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Offers and complementary products
Get studyON, our exam study, revision and practise
tool, for free!Now free and fully integrated across the entire series, studyON is our interactive and highly visual online study, revision and exam practise tool. With many features such as access to official past exams, videos, interactivities, auto-marked questions and progress tracking tools, studyON packs in so much more than a traditional print study guide.
Jacaranda's VCE Physics series
The Jacaranda VCE Physics series is available in a print with digital or digital-only format to allow teachers to teach their class, their way.
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Units 1 & 2
Digital
Title: Jacaranda Physics 1 VCE Units 1 and 2 4e learnON + studyON ISBN: 9780730373100 Publication date: November 2019 RRP: $50.00 learnON is the digital platform for students and teachers. Teachers get access to a bank of additional support resources – free!
Digital with Print
Title: Jacaranda Physics 1 VCE Units 1 and 2 4e learnON & Print + studyON ISBN: 9780730373155 Publication date: December 2019 RRP: $80.00
($50 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
To view content, simply click on the chapter link in green and the PDF will open up in a separate browser tab.
Table of Contents Unit 1: What ideas explain the physical world? Unit 2: What do experiments reveal about the physical world? Topic 1: Thermodynamics principles – Heat, temperature and internal energy Topic 9: Analysing motion Topic 2: Thermodynamics and climate science Topic 10: Forces in action Topic 3: Concepts used to model electricity Topic 11: Mechanical interactions Topic 4: Circuit analysis Options (online only) Topic 5: Using electricity and electrical safety Topic 12: What are stars? Topic 6: Origins of atoms Topic 13: Is there life beyond Earth’s Solar System? Topic 7: Particles in the nucleus Topic 14: How do forces act on the human body? Topic 8: Energy from the atom Topic 15: How can AC electricity charge a DC device? Topic 16: How do heavy things fly? Topic 17: Are fusion and fission viable nuclear energy power sources? Topic 18: How is radiation used to maintain human health? Topic 19: How do particle accelerators work? Topic 20: How can human vision be enhanced? Topic 21: How do instruments make music? Topic 22: How can performance in ball sports be improved? Topic 23: How does the human body use electricity? Topic 24: Practical investigation -
Units 3 & 4
Digital
Title: Jacaranda Physics 2 VCE Units 3 and 4 4e learnON + studyON ISBN: 9780730373230 Publication date: October 2019 RRP: $50.00 learnON is the digital platform for students and teachers. Teachers get access to a bank of additional support resources – free!
Digital with Print
Title: Jacaranda Physics 2 VCE Units 3 and 4 4e learnON & Print + studyON ISBN: 9780730373285 Publication date: December 2019 RRP: $80.00
($50 plus an additional $30 for print)The best of both worlds! Get full access to learnON and a printed copy for just $30 extra.
To view content, simply click on the chapter link in green and the PDF will open up in a separate browser tab.
Table of Contents Unit 3: How do things move without contact? Unit 4: How can two contradictory models explain both light and matter? Topic 1: Gravitation Topic 9: Properties of mechanical waves Topic 2: Electric fields Topic 10: Light as a wave Topic 3: Magnetic fields Topic 11: The particle-like nature of light Topic 4: Generation of electricity Topic 12: Light and matter Topic 5: Transmission of electricity Topic 13: Practical investigation Topic 6: Newton’s laws of motion Topic 7: Force, energy and mass in collusions and other interactions Topic 8: Special relativity
Why VCE Physics teachers trust Jacaranda:
Let Ross Phillips, from Strathcona Baptist Girls College, share with you how the Jacaranda VCE Physics series has helped him engage students in the study of Physics, supported his teaching, catered to his students learning styles and has provided him with quality content for many years.
What are teachers saying about the Jacaranda VCE Physics series?
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“We have used Jacaranda over a number of years and we will continue to because the resources are clear and cover all aspects of the curriculum. When support is required, the staff at Jacaranda are easy to deal with and sort the issue immediately.”
EMILY GERSON
Lilydale Heights Secondary College