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Victorian Curriculum / Learning Areas / Science / Science Understanding / Physical sciences

Heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another; a change in the temperature of an object is related to the gain or loss of heat by the object (VCSSU063)

Production and Transfer of Heat Subject Based Preview Unit
Production and Transfer of Heat Pretest · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students will complete a pretest about the production and transfer of heat.
Production and Transfer of Heat Glossary · Pretesting and Familiarisation Your students are going to become familiar with words that they will use during this learning sequence.
Understanding Heat: Meditation and Exercise · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about heat as a form of energy through a simple demonstration and consider how heat affects their temperature when meditating and exercising.
Production of Heat: Pizza Box Solar Oven · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about different ways heat is produced and use solar energy to create a pizza box solar oven.
Heating and Cooling: Making Jelly · Learning Opportunities Your students will explore different examples of heating and cooling in their lives and in different professions and observe heating and cooling by making jelly with the class.
Insulation: Best Insulator Experiment · Learning Opportunities Your students will explore different ways animals and humans use insulation to stay warm and conduct a class experiment to predict and test which material acts as the best insulator.
Thermal Conductivity: In Hot Water · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about thermal conductivity as they experiment with different materials.
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.

Our Island Home Connections Preview Unit
Scientific Connections: Climate Zones · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about the main climate zones of Earth and how the sun's heat affects the temperature of different places on Earth.
Scientific Connections: Thermal Conductivity · Learning Opportunities Your students will learn about thermal conductivity as they experiment with different materials.