Science / Year 9 / Science Understanding / Chemical sciences

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Curriculum content descriptions

Chemical reactions involve rearranging atoms to form new substances; during a chemical reaction mass is not created or destroyed (ACSSU178)

Elaborations

identifying reactants and products in chemical reactions
modelling chemical reactions in terms of rearrangement of atoms
describing observed reactions using word equations
considering the role of energy in chemical reactions
recognising that the conservation of mass in a chemical reaction can be demonstrated by simple chemical equations

ScOT terms

Chemical reactions, Molecular structure

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