Heating up

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.

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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

This is a classic Primary Connections sequence aligned with the Australian Curriculum V8.4. It is only available as a downloadable package.

The Heating up sequence package includes all the resources you need to teach this sequence, including:

• The Heating up unit PDF
• Equipment list
• Australian Curriculum v8.4 alignment
• Student eResource sheets
• Assessment resources:
  • Assessment rubrics
  • Work samples
  • Student self-assessment
  • Achievement standard class checklist

Teacher tools

Our new all-online sequence Scorching swings and slides shares a curriculum content descriptor with this sequence. Scorching swings and slides is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and contains embedded professional learning and supplementary teacher advice.