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Changes to materials can be reversible or irreversible (ACSSU095)

Reversible & Irreversible Changes Subject Based Preview Unit
Chemistry Pretest · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students will complete a pretest about reversible and irreversible changes.
Chemistry Glossary · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students are going to become familiar with words that they will use during this learning sequence.
Reversible And Irreversible Change: Matching And Guessing Games · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about reversible and irreversible changes as they play a guessing game and a matching game.
Reversible Changes: Researching Recycling · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about the reversible changes involved in recycling waste.
Reversible Changes: Water Filter Experiment · Learning Opportunities Your students will observe reversible changes as they conduct a water filter experiment.
Irreversible Changes: Cooking Pancakes · Learning Opportunities Your students are going to observe an irreversible change when pancakes are cooked.
Irreversible Changes: Making A Plaster Stick · Learning Opportunities Your students will observe an irreversible change as they create a plaster stick.
Solubility Experiment · Learning Opportunities Your students will investigate if common materials are soluble or insoluble.
Developing My Presentation · Demonstration of Understanding Your students will select a performance of understanding and develop a presentation to show what they have learnt during this learning sequence

The Journey to Discovery Discovery Preview Unit
Experimenting with Water · Learning Opportunities Your students will conduct several experiments with water, as they learn about the states of matter.
Building a Thermoscope · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn how liquids and gases change when they are heated or cooled as they build a thermoscope.
Pretest · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students will complete a pretest about the scale of the solar system, light refraction, electrical circuits and states of matter.