Teaching & Learning Resource Pilot
Trick Or Treat
ABC - eXperiMentals (10 Jun 2010) National Curriculum: Year 6 Subjects: Science
Episode 27. Two characters who greet children coming to the door for tick or treat with a trick and in between visits from children prepare some spooky party food for halloween such as slime and frozen hands.
Format: Video
Segment run time: 6min 3s
Last reviewed: 10/06/2010
Year level: Year 6
Relevance:
Curriculum strands
Changes to paper caused by heat can reveal fingerprints. [S6SU4]; Substances can be compared using observable and measurable properties. [S7SU8]
Assumed prior learning
Properties of liquids and solids, familiarity with the states of water, that water acts as a solvent, some familiarity with solubility.
Suggestions for using this resource
- as a context for students in Year 7 to view how physical properties of a substance may change and effect its usefulness
- as instructions for students in Year 7 to experience first-hand the change in physical properties of a substance and to investigate how this could be useful
- as instructions for students in Year 6 to experiment with water by freezing it and mixing it with other materials
- for Year 6 students to provide a context for deeper understanding of what happens when materials are mixed.
Related resources
Cornflour slime, CSIRO
http://www.csiro.au/resources/cornflour-slime-activity.html
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