AC9S5U04 Year 5 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

explain observable properties of solids, liquids and gases by modelling the motion and arrangement of particles

Elaborations

• 1 classifying substances as solids, liquids and gases and investigating their properties
• 2 exploring examples that demonstrate that gases have mass, such as blowing air through straws to move objects or using a balance to compare an empty balloon to one filled with air
• 3 using role-play to model the arrangement and motion of particles in solids, liquids and gases
• 4 observing a virtual demonstration of coloured gases being compressed and providing an explanation for the change in colour intensity
• 5 exploring, through guided discussion, ideas about what is between particles
• 6 recognising First Nations Australians’ knowledges and understandings of solids, liquids and gases and how these knowledges are applied in a range of processes and practices, including the extraction of oils, medical therapies and cooking

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