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Curriculum content descriptions

Changes to materials can be reversible or irreversible (ACSSU095)

Elaborations
  • describing what happens when materials are mixed
  • investigating the solubility of common materials in water
  • investigating the change in state caused by heating and cooling of a familiar substance
  • investigating irreversible changes such as rusting, burning and cooking
  • exploring how reversible changes can be used to recycle materials
  • investigate reversible reactions such as melting, freezing and evaporating
ScOT terms

Chemical reactions,  Phase transformations

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