AC9S3U03 Year 3 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Science provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another

Elaborations

• 1 exploring how we sense heat and identifying sources of heat such as the sun, fire, electrical devices and geothermal springs
• 2 recognising that changes in heat energy can be measured using a thermometer
• 3 observing and, with assistance, measuring, what happens when a cold object is placed in direct contact with a warm object and proposing explanations
• 4 modelling the movement of heat from one object to another using drawing or role-play
• 5 investigating how well heat is transferred by different types of materials such as metals, plastics and ceramics and identifying how materials are used to keep things hot and cold
• 6 exploring how First Nations Australians developed clothing from animal skins such as possum furs and kangaroo skin cloaks that trap heat close to the body to stay warm

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