How Can We Stop Ice from Melting?

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Science:

Students learn to:

• investigate the observable properties of solids and liquids and how adding or removing heat energy leads to a change of state (AC9S3U04)

Relevant parts of Year 3 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 3, students describe how to cause a change of state.

• Aluminium foil
• Fabric, such as teatowels
• Ice cubes
• Newspaper
• Several small cardboard boxes
• Stopwatch
• Styrofoam

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• curiosity
• reflection
• critical thinking

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - support students in the theories, practical experimentation, and explaining and recording their observations. 

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