Activities for year 7 Science
Teacher Resources
Below you will find links to the details of 3 activities aimed at year 7-8 science. Each teacher resource page has a complimentary student resource page with links to useful information, access to worksheets and informational videos. You can link students to these pages in preparation for launching the task, or to provide interested students with further material.
Students go to “blind” workstations where they can feel different materials. They must categorize the material as a liquid, solid or gas and give justifications. Class can discuss and try to agree on results of stations… then reveal workstations.
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Victorian Curriculum: 7-8
The properties of the different states of matter can be explained in terms of the motion and arrangement of particles (VCSSU096)
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using the particle model to distinguish between the properties of liquid water, ice and steam
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This task aims to help students build a model of how particles interact in solids, liquids and gasses.
Students will move about the room under guidance in groups representing the different states.
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Victorian Curriculum: 7-8
The properties of the different states of matter can be explained in terms of the motion and arrangement of particles (VCSSU096)
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modelling the arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases
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using the particle model to distinguish between the properties of liquid water, ice and steam
Students are organised into groups and given a design brief and specific role within their team. Teams then must decide whether their brief is best solved by using a solid, liquid or gas and justify their reasoning.
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Victorian Curriculum: 7-8
The properties of the different states of matter can be explained in terms of the motion and arrangement of particles (VCSSU096)
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modelling the arrangement of particles in solids, liquids and gases
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using the particle model to distinguish between the properties of liquid water, ice and steam
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