Chemical Sciences Teaching Resources
Explore the chemical sciences in your primary classroom this school year with the help of activities, worksheets and experiments created just for Australian teachers like you!
This collection of printable and digital activities is stocked with everything you need to meet Australian science curriculum standards for chemistry, including resources focused on substances and mixtures, liquids and solids and more. Introduce the periodic table, explore density, discuss freezing and melting and dive deep into chemical changes.
Each resource in this extensive collection has undergone a thorough review by a member of the Teach Starter science teaching team to ensure it's ready for your lesson plans and your students.
- Plus Plan
Stretchy Scoot Relay
A whole class active game to play when learning about the properties of materials.
- Plus Plan
Processed Materials Poster
A poster displaying different processed materials and explaining what processed materials are.
- Plus Plan
Fast Finisher Science Task Cards
Excite your students about science concepts with a set of 48 fast-finisher task cards featuring a variety of concepts.
- Plus Plan
Material World Resource Pack
Learn about natural and manmade materials with a printable resource pack.
- Plus Plan
Our Natural and Built Environments - Poster Pack
Poster with definitions and examples of natural and built environments.
- Plus Plan
Why Teach About Cultural Burning? Poster
An educational poster providing a rationale for teaching Australian children about cultural burning.
- Free Plan
Observing Matter Worksheet
A worksheet to practise observing the properties of materials used in a range of objects.
- Plus Plan
Assessment: Chemical Science Clever Changes – Worksheet
A worksheet designed to assess Year 1 students about Chemical Science.
- Plus Plan
Natural and Processed Materials PowerPoint
A teaching presentation comparing natural and processed materials and how humans make scientific comparisons.
- Plus Plan
What's Bending – Worksheet
A worksheet designed for students to use their knowledge and understanding of objects and if they bend.
- Plus Plan
The Science Behind Shaping Pretzels – Worksheet
A worksheet to order an illustrated procedure about how to make a pretzel using scientific actions.
- Plus Plan
The Science Behind Shaping Pretzels
An illustrated procedure about how to make a pretzel using scientific actions.
- Plus Plan
Plastic and Concrete PowerPoint - How Do People Use Processed Materials?
A teaching presentation discussing processed materials and their uses.
- Plus Plan
Material World Cut-Out Decorations
Cut-out decorations to use on your materials display board.
- Plus Plan
Materials Poster
A poster showing the definition and an example of materials.
- Plus Plan
My Ecological Footprint Worksheet
A worksheet which will have the students evaluate their ecological footprint and compare it with the class.
- Free Plan
Object Material Investigation Worksheet
A worksheet for investigating the materials certain objects are made from.
- Plus Plan
Pure Substances and Mixtures - Teaching Resource Pack
A collection of teaching resources to use when teaching a chemistry unit on pure substances, mixtures and separating techniques.
- Plus Plan
What Works Best?
A 60 minute lesson in which students develop an understanding of the suitability of certain materials for different purposes.
- Plus Plan
Let's Sort!
A 60 minute lesson in which students identify the material objects are made of and sort them in various ways.
- Plus Plan
Diving Into Description
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore the properties of materials and develop vocabulary to describe them.
- Plus Plan
The Three States of Matter
A 60-minute lesson in which students will explore the properties of solids, liquids and gases.
- Plus Plan
Choice Cooling
A 60-minute lesson designed to explain how certain materials change when they are cooled.
- Plus Plan
Keep Me Dry
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how water resistant they are.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
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.
- Plus Plan
Science Experiment - Suck It Up!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate materials and their absorptive properties through a scientific investigation.
- Plus Plan
Give Me Some Shade
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how much shade they provide.
- Plus Plan
Observing Matter Changes
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate what happens when heat is added or removed from a substance.
- Plus Plan
Adding Heat
A 60-minute lesson in which students will investigate what happens when heat is applied to a range of solids.
- Plus Plan
Changing States
A 60-minute lesson in which students will observe how a change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing heat.
- Chemical Sciences Worksheets
- Chemical Sciences Projects
- Chemical Sciences Games
- Chemical Sciences Teaching Presentations
- Chemical Sciences Templates
- Chemical Sciences Posters
- Chemical Sciences for Foundation Year
- Chemical Sciences for Year 1
- Chemical Sciences for Year 2
- Chemical Sciences for Year 3
- Chemical Sciences for Year 4
- Chemical Sciences for Year 5
- Chemical Sciences for Year 6
- Chemical Sciences for Year 7