Questioning and predicting
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Chemical Sciences: Clever Changes – Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the physical changes of materials and how properties change when materials stretch, bend, twist, heat or cool. Students predict how materials will vary and whether they can be returned to their original state.
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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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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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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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This is Your Life
A 60 minute lesson in which students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the stages of the human life cycle.
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Big Changes!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop their understanding of the concept of metamorphosis.
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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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A-Planting We Will Go!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will plant seeds following the procedure of the scientific method.
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Let's Think Like a Scientist
A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of the procedures scientists use and design one segment of an experiment.
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How Do Living Things Change?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will activate prior knowledge about how living things change as they grow.
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What Snacks Do Ants Prefer?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate which foods ants prefer to eat.
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Asking Questions About Living Things
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that small animals have different external features.
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Sensational Stretching
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials can be stretched.
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Brilliant Bending
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials can bend.
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Terrific Twisting
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials can be twisted.
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Stretch, Bend and Twist – I Think You've Got the Gist
A 60-minute lesson designed for students to use their knowledge of materials to predict and identify whether materials stretch, bend or twist.
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Handy Heating
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials change when they are heated.
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Choice Cooling
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials change when they are cooled.
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Are You Getting Hot or Cold?
A 60-minute lesson designed to summarise the physical changes that occur when things stretch, bend, twist, heat and cool.
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What Will Change?
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Do You See What I See?
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Changes, Changes Everywhere!
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of how living things grow and change.