You Will Need
Additional Resources
- Range of investigation equipment (based on children’s needs)
- Laptops/tablets and Internet access
- ‘Lab coats’
Science fair - Audience testing
Science Year 5
This unit is part of
Year 5 Science Changing Materials
Objectives
Get your colourful lab coats on and invite some potential ‘clients’ to try out your education pack - share your Pinterest page and show them your investigating eggs video. Is your Education pack ready for the Science Museum or does it still need a few ‘changes’?!
Science Objectives
i) Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their solubility and response to magnets.
ii) Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution.
iii) Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating.
iv) Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes.
v) Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.
Working Scientifically
- Plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary.
- Take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate.
- Report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
- Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
Other Curriculum Areas
Computing
- Understand the opportunities that the www offers for communication and collaboration. Select, use and combine software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design & create content.
Extended Writing Opportunities
Information text: Write a report of your methods and findings for the Science Museum
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Set up and run a range of materials investigations.
- Share knowledge and understanding of materials and the scientific process.
Activities
- Set up a series of materials investigations.
- Support visitors as they take part in a range of materials investigations.
- Showcase their education packs to an audience.
Investigation - pattern seeking
Present findings in the form of an education pack for the Science Museum.
Vocabulary
Opinion/fact, variables, accuracy, precision, enquiry, solution, soluble, insoluble, new material, gives off gas, mixture, reversible, irreversible, evaporation, sieving, filtering, magnets, heating, burning, cooking, reaction