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Let's teach! Primary

Year 3 Science

Unit 2 – Gases, Liquids and Solids

Chemical Sciences

Unit Overview

Key Inquiry Question

What are gas, liquids and solids?

Australian Curriculum

ACSSU046, ACSHE050, ACSHE051, ACSIS053, ACSIS054, ACSIS055, ACSIS057, ACSIS215, ACSIS215, ACSIS058, ACSIS060

NSW Curriculum

ST2-6MW-S, ST2-4LW-S, ST2-10ES-S, ST2-1WS-S

Victorian Curriculum

VCSSU056, VCSSU059, VCSIS065, VCSIS066, VCSIS067, VCSIS068, VCSIS069, VCSIS070, VCSIS071, VCSIS072

Cross Curriculum Priorities

General Capabilities

Critical and creative thinking, Numeracy, Literacy

Vocabulary

solid, liquid, gas, matter, particles, atoms, molecules, volume, mass, mass, properties, temperature, substance, reversible change, irreversible change

Achievement Standards

By the end of Year 3, students use their understanding of materials to suggest explanations for everyday observations. They describe how they can use science investigations to respond to questions.

Students use their experiences to identify questions and make predictions about scientific investigations.

They follow procedures to collect and record observations and suggest possible reasons for their findings, based on patterns in their data.

They describe how safety and fairness were considered and they use diagrams and other representations to communicate their ideas.