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Science at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 5)

Unit 5D: Changing state

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Vocabulary

In this unit children will have opportunities to use:

  • words and phrases related to changes of state eg evaporation, condensation, boiling temperature, state, change of state, water cycle, conditions, solid, liquid, gas
  • names of processes and verbs related to them eg condensation/condense, evaporation/evaporate, melting/melt, freezing/freeze, solidification/solidity
  • expressions for generalising and summarising.


Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. Introduction
2. Water evaporation
3. Evaporation of other liquids
4. Planning to investigate evaporation
5. Interpreting results on evaporation
6. Drying and evaporation
7. Condensation
8. Finding condensation
9. Boiling
10. Observing melting
11. Reversible changes of state
12. The water cycle