National curriculum content
- Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases.
- Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled.
- Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.
Lesson objectives
LO1: Explain how particles move in solids, liquids and gases.
LO2: Understand that gases have mass and describe how they move.
LO3: Observe materials changing state when heated or cooled.
LO4: Define and describe evaporation and condensation.
LO5: Explain the difference between reversible and irreversible changes.
What we want children to know
- How to develop simple descriptions of the states of matter from a variety of everyday objects
- Know the changes which happen to water when it is heated or cooled
- How to group and classify a variety of different materials and explore the effect of temperature on different substances
- Know the difference between reversible and irreversible changes.
What skills we want children to develop
- Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
- Set up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.
- Make systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers.
- Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions.
- Record findings using simple scientific language drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables.
- Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.
- Use results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions.
- Identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.
- Use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.
Vocabulary
Boiling point, boiling, condensing, evaporation, freezing, freezing point, gas, liquid, matter, material, melting, melting point, solid, temperature