AC9S8U05 Year 8 Science

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 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.

classify different types of energy as kinetic or potential and investigate energy transfer and transformations in simple systems

Elaborations

• 1 investigating relationships between kinetic and potential energy in a simple system such as a roller-coaster or Newton’s cradle
• 2 classifying types of energy as either kinetic energy such as movement, heat and electricity or potential energy such as chemical, elastic and gravitational
• 3 critiquing and using representations such as flow diagrams to illustrate changes between different forms of energy in a system
• 4 identifying where heat energy is produced as a by-product of energy transfer, such as filament light globes, exercise, and battery charging and use
• 5 using electrical circuits and components to demonstrate electrical energy transfer and its transformation into heat, light and sound
• 6 observing a Rube Goldberg machine and identifying the energy transfers and transformations involved
• 7 investigating traditional fire-starting methods used by First Nations Australians and their understandings of the transformation of energy

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