Science
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Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
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Keeping Warm
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore prior knowledge and understanding of heat.
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Going, Going, Gone!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognise that substances exist in different states depending on the temperature.
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Diagram of the Solar System
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Living Things and Their External Features Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit covers a range of concepts relating to living things, such as their external features and the places in which their needs are met.
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Living Things and Their Needs Unit Plan
This Science unit covers a range of concepts relating to the basic needs of living things.
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Understanding States of Matter
An assessment task designed to assess students' knowledge and understanding of solids, liquids and gases, their properties and their behaviour.
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Living in the Material World - Examining Natural and Processed Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students will examine and understand the differences between natural and processed materials and their uses.
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Recycling Case Study – Soft Plastics
A 60-minute lesson in which students will explore how changes from solid to liquid and liquid to solid can help in the process of recycling plastic.
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What is Light?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will research the concept of light and generate a list of statements that can be tested.
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Changes I Can See!
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores how and why changes occur in the sky and landscape, and develops students' ability to describe these changes in their local environment.
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Knowing Matters!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how knowledge of states of matter and their changes can help inform practices and decision making.
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Design a Musical Instrument
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of sound.
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Changing States of Matter
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the way solids, liquids and gases change in different situations.
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What's the Matter?
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And Further On - Research Into the Environmental Impact of Certain Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students will be introduced to a research task for them to undertake about a material of their choosing.
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Sensational Senses
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the five senses and the information they provide.
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The Solar System Begins
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Electricity Explained
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of energy transfer and transformation when generating electricity.
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Changing States – Assessment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how adding and removing heat can cause solids and liquids to change states.
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What State?
A 60-minute lesson in which students will establish that matter can be classified as solid, liquid or gas.
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Is It Sustainable? Evaluating Sources of Electricity
A 60 minute lesson in which students will consider whether energy sources are sustainable.
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Light and Shadow - Design an Experiment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of light and fair testing.
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Reflecting Light
A 60 minute lesson in which students will use mirrors to investigate some of the properties of reflected light.
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Marvellous Materials
A 60-minute lesson in which students recap their prior knowledge of materials and their physical features.
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Assessment - Changes I Can See
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Material World Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates natural and processed materials. Demonstrations and experimental procedures are explored with particular attention given to the scientific method.
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Going Through Stages
A 60 minute lesson in which students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of simple life cycles.
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Astounding Ants
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the external features of an ant.
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Slime - Solid, Liquid or Gas?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognise that not all substances can be easily classified on the basis of their observable properties.
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Gases
A 60 minute lesson in which students will observe that gases have mass and take up space.
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Liquids
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the observable characteristics of liquids and how they behave in different ways.