All Curriculum for excellence: topic SCN 1-05a articles

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    Science concept cartoons: condensation

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    Show this concept cartoon to your class to get them talking and thinking about condensation in new ways.

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    The life of water

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    Get hands on with H2O, changing states of matter and the water cycle. These experiments and investigations involve water in the context of space

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    Liquids | Primary science video demonstrations

    Demonstrate the properties of liquids to primary learners, including: suspended ice, heavy sugar and the particle disco.

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    Solids, Liquids and Gases

    Cartoon animations that explain in simple terms why different materials have different properties and how they change on heating and cooling. Other animations cover separating solids from liquids and show what happens to a solid when it dissolves in a liquid. Courtesy of the ABPI.

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    Solids, liquids and gases: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘solids, liquids and gases’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn about solids, liquids and gases, and understand that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled.

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    Heating and cooling materials: That’s Chemistry!

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    The ‘heating and cooling materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how the properties of some materials change when they are heated, and that some of these changes are irreversible.