CURRICULUM RESOURCES
Year 1 | Chemical sciences | Spot the difference | NEW – fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum
Changes are happening all around us. Chocolate melts in the sun, water evaporates from puddles and cement hardens in the open air. Predicting the changes that can happen to everyday materials is important in understanding the best way to manage things such as, food handling and cooking, construction and packaging.
The Spot the difference unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. By observing change, students glimpse the diversity of materials in their world. Students explore change through the context of food including spaghetti, chocolate and popcorn. Students learn about how heating or cooling a food can change its properties and whether that change can be reversed or not. An investigation about which type of chocolate melts the fastest will help students draw conclusions about how fast or slow changes can happen and the consequences of change.
Unit at a glance (PDF)
Equipment lists (PDF)
Alignment with the Australian Curriculum: Science (PDF)
Alignment with the Australian Curriculum: English and Maths (PDF)
Indigenous Perspectives framework (PDF)
Indigenous Perspectives Teaching and learning guide
Factual and narrative texts
Factual texts:
Cooking and Change (Go Facts: Food)
McEvoy, Paul (Blake Education, Australia, 2005, 20pp)
ISBN1-86509-533-8
What can change?
Parkes, Brenda (Pearson Education, Australia, 2000, 16pp)
ISBN: 0733918336
Heating – First Steps Changing Matter.
Rivera, Sheila (Lerner Publishing Co. USA, 2007, 8pp)
ISBN: 9780822564157
Bending – First Steps Changing Matter.
Rivera, Sheila (Lerner Publishing Co. USA, 2007, 8pp)
ISBN: 9780822564164
Cooling – First Steps Changing Matter.
Rivera, Sheila (Lerner Publishing Co. USA, 2007, 8pp)
ISBN: 9780822564126
Mixing – First Steps Changing Matter.
Rivera, Sheila (Lerner Publishing Co. USA, 2007, 8pp)
ISBN: 9780822564119
Cutting – First Steps Changing Matter.
Rivera, Sheila (Lerner Publishing Co. USA, 2007, 8pp)
ISBN: 9780822564133
Dissolving – First Steps Changing Matter.
Rivera, Sheila (Lerner Publishing Co. USA, 2007, 8pp)
ISBN: 9780822564140