Wiltshire E-Learning Project Curriculum Area: Science KS2

Learning Objective

Changing Materials

These activities are designed to supplement work done in science and should always be accompanied by some practical investigation

 

Software - Websites - Activities

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BBC Revisewise

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Materials and their properties 1. Pupils should be taught to:

a) to describe changes that occur when materials are mixed [for example, adding salt to water]
Model adding different substances to water
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/9_10

 
Experiment cards and recording sheet to download
 
 
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b) to describe changes that occur when materials [for example, water, clay, dough] are heated or cooled

 
Complete database of how things change when heated/cooled
 
 
 
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c) that temperature is a measure of how hot or cold things are

 
Use sensors to measure temperatures in different places

 
Graph results of temperature readings
 
 
 
d) about reversible changes, including dissolving, melting, boiling, condensing, freezing and evaporating

 
Animation explaining how changes of state occur
www.bgfl.org/bgfl

 
Model heating and cooling materials
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/8_9

 
Learn about materials changing state
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/9_10
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/10_11
 
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e) the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle

 
Explanation of the water cycle
www.kidzone.ws/water/
www.midkentwater.co.uk/educational/cycle
www.naturegrid.org.uk/rivers/watercyclepages
www.mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/concepts

 
Explore the processes of the Water Cycle by dragging and dropping key parts
www.athena.bham.org.uk/WCjumbled.htm
 
 
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f) that non-reversible changes [for example, vinegar reacting with bicarbonate of soda, plaster of Paris with water] result in the formation of new materials that may be useful

 
Identify correct statements about changes
www.e-schools.co.uk/revision/science
 
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g) that burning materials [for example, wood, wax, natural gas] results in the formation of new materials and that this change is not usually reversible.