Visy Glass - Physical and Chemical Properties of Glass

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

• critical thinking
• community engagement
• curiosity
• global citizenship

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 7 Chemical Sciences

• Use the particle model to describe differences between pure substances and mixtures and apply an understanding of the properties of substances to separate mixtures (AC9S7U06)

Relevant parts of Year 7 Chemical Sciences achievement standards: Students can use particle theory to explain the physical properties of substances.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: Stage 4 Science

• Explains how the properties of substances enable separation in a range of techniques (SC4-SOL-01)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion, some explicit teaching of scientific concepts

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

• Assortment of materials such as paper, cardboard, plastics, metals, glass jars and bottles, ceramic plates and bowls, glass cookware such as heatproof jugs, lightbulbs, drinking glasses, reading glasses, etc (images available in lesson plan if materials can’t be sourced)
• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Visy. For over 70 years Visy has been committed to finding sustainable solutions for Australia and New Zealand’s recyclables and helping to reduce local landfills. Visy collects, receives and sorts paper, cardboard, glass, plastics, steel and aluminium from households, businesses and schools with the purpose of reusing these products in the re-manufacture of new packaging products.

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