Heating up addresses the AC Science Understanding ACSSU049 Heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another, in the context of exploring and identifying heat sources among everyday objects and materials.

Heating up provides students with hands-on opportunities to:

  • identify different heat sources
  • explore how heat moves from one object to another
  • inquire about ways heat is produced
  • experience different ways of keeping warm

Students apply their new learning by:

  • planning and conducting an investigation to collect data and compare the conductivity of different materials

Linking science with literacy

In the Primary Connections approach, students are supported to create representations that draw on and strengthen their literacy development. In Heating up, students represent and explain their understanding about how heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another, by creating these representations:

  • Ideas map
  • Data table
  • T-chart
  • Labelled diagram
  • Poster
  • Word wall