AC9S6U04
Year 6
Science
AC9S6U04 | Year 6 Science: Chemical sciences
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor compare reversible changes, including dissolving and changes of state, and irreversible changes, including cooking and rusting that produce new substances
Strand
Science understanding
Substrand
Chemical sciences
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 6 Science. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration discussing what makes a change reversible or irreversible, using everyday examples
- • Elaboration examining the substances produced in cooking and rusting and comparing them with the original substances
- • Elaboration comparing how the amount of heat energy added affects whether a change in state or an irreversible change occurs
- • Elaboration describing how dissolved substances are reclaimed from solutions
- • Elaboration exploring how reversible changes can be used to recycle materials
- • Elaboration investigating First Nations Australians’ knowledges of reversible processes such as the application of adhesives and of irreversible processes such as the use of fuels for torches
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