| Science Key Stage
3 Programme of Study |
| Experimental and
Investigative Science, Life Processes and Living Things, Materials and Their Properties
and Physical Processes |
| 2. Application of Science |
a: relate scientific knowledge and
understanding to familiar phenomena and to things that are used everyday |
How your fridge works
Explore an animated refrigeration circuit demonstrating basic thermodynamic principles and
pressure, temperature and gas relationships |
| b: consider
how applications of science influence the quality of their lives |
A cool
science
Follow the development of the refrigerator from the use of natural ice to widespread use
of domestic cabinets |
| 3.
The Nature of Scientific Ideas |
c: relate
social and historical contexts to scientific ideas by studying how at least one scientific
idea has changed over time |
A cool
science
Follow the development of the refrigerator from the use of natural ice to widespread use
of domestic cabinets |
Materials and their Properties
2. Changing materials: Physical Changes |
a: that when
physical changes (e.g. changes of state, formation of solutions) take place, mass is
conserved |
States of matter Gas laws in action
How your fridge works
How food freezes
Find out about the three states of matter and how matter changes from one state to another
by researching the gas laws and the scientists who discovered them |
| c: that
difference materials change state |
| d:
to relate changes of state to energy transfers |
| e:
how materials expand and contract with changes in temperature and how the forces that
result are sometimes considerable |
