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Through this unit children build on their ideas about temperature as a measure of how hot or cold objects are and learn about thermal insulators as materials which can help to keep things warm or cool.
Experimental and investigative work focuses on:
- turning ideas into a form that can be investigated
- using thermometers to make careful measurements of temperature
- identifying and suggesting explanations for patterns and trends in results and using results to draw conclusions.
Children also have opportunities to use IT (see IT Units
3C 'Introduction to databases' and
4D 'Collecting and presenting information: questionnaires and pie charts') to collect, retrieve and present information and to use their understanding of science to explain everyday phenomena about keeping warm and cooling down.
This unit takes approximately 10 hours.
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