Year 3 Task Card Chemical Sciences

Introduction

This digital task card consists of a teacher resource, student on line activities, real world tasks
for the learners and a suggested learning sequence.
This is intended as an introductory activity.
Formative assessment can take place throughout the resource activities.
This resource has sections to aid in the scaffolding of information.

Focus question

Can adding or removing heat change the state of a solid or liquid?

CURRICULUM LINKS
Intended Learning Outcomes - Direct from Australian Curriculum: Science

SCIENCE UNDERSTANDING

A CHANGE OF STATE BETWEEN SOLID AND LIQUID CAN BE CAUSED BY ADDING OR
REMOVING HEAT (ACSSU046)
Investigating how liquids and solids respond to changes in temperature, for example water changing
to ice, or melting chocolate.

Declarative Knowledge
The learner will know:

Procedural Knowledge:
The learner will be able to:


D1 Solids respond to change in
temperature
D2 Liquids respond to change in
temperature
D3 Liquids cannot return to previous solid
form (shape) without aid



P1 Change the state of a solid by adjusting
temperature
P2 Change the state of a liquid by
adjusting temperature









P Pr ri io or r K Kn no ow wl le ed dg ge e: :

Knowledge and experience of how to use online videos.

Knowledge and experience of how to use online simulations

knowledge and experience of how bubble.us mindmaps work

Knowledge and experience of how to use and create online graphs

Extensive experience in successful group work

Understands ice melts when temperature added


Suggested Classroom Application Section 1
Differentiation
Teacher to guide and scaffold throughout to cater for all skill levels
Pair up students, mixing abilities to allow peer support for the simulation and bar graph. This will
free up the teacher to float around the class.
Teacher aid assistance
variety of delivery formats

POSING QUESTIONS:
The 5 Es [Primary Connections] - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate

What changes solid chocolate to a liquid?
What needs to happen to make water turn into ice?
What do you need to do to the temperature to turn a solid into a liquid?
What do you need to do to the temperature to turn a liquid into a solid?
What is an example of a situation where temperature changes the state of a solid or liquid?


COLLECT AND REPRESENT DATA:
The 5 Es [Primary Connections] - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate

Write on white board How does a change in temperature affect chocolate?
Direct learners in pairs to click on the link to the on-line simulation. Demonstrate how to work it and
what information to look out for.
Have one learner operating the simulation and the other taking notes and drawing diagrams with labels.

ANALYSE EVIDENCE
The 5 Es [Primary Connections] - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate

Create graph of the different temperatures where the states change according to the simulation.
Print it out.
NB On the online graph, chart aluminum in its cold form because it will make the other temperatures
very small in the graph. Have the learners hand draw its melted temperature (660 degrees)on the
printed version so that they can see just how much more heat is needed.
RELATING EVIDENCE & CONCLUSIONS
The 5 Es [Primary Connections] - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate

Why would you have to chart aluminum in its cold form instead of its hot form?
After melting, the substances being brought back to original temperature did not reform.
Why did this happen?
Do all substances change form at the same temperature?
DEVELOPING FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS
Melt crayons with a hair dryer.
Watch an icypole melt in a tub, freeze it again and notice it doesnt go back to its original shape.
What is the difference in material that requires aluminum to get so hot to change state?
Does change in temperature affect the mass of liquids and solids?