the effects of waste materials on the environment

Overview: Children increase their understanding on the affects of detergents on the environment through two scientific investigations.

Author(s): Denise Fishlock

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Band: Middle Years

Strand: Matter

Duration: Approximately 4 weeks

Published: November 2002

Financial assistance for the development of this resource was provided by The National Quality Teacher Program

Context: Meadows Primary School is set in a semi-rural area with many parents involved in agricultural work and other commuting to the city. The Year 5/6 class was complex as it comprised of many students with social problems with three students with special need ranging from significant disability to SHIP ability.
Key Idea: Students pose questions to investigate ways in which physical and chemical processes can be altered in order to achieve desirable outcomes.
Elements of the SACSA Framework
Essential Learnings
Key Competencies
Outcome (SACSA Standards)
Futures                                                 

Thinking

Communication

Interdependence

Link to SACSA Essential Learnings

KC 1: Collecting, analysing and organising information

KC 2: Communicating ideas and information

KC 5:Using Mathematical techniques

KC 6: Solving problems

List all Key Competencies

Students pose questions, hypothesise, plan, conduct investigations collaboratively and report about the properties of detergents.
They analyse and debate issues of sustainable use and alternative materials that past, current and future generations have and could use.
Students understand their impact on the environment.
© South Australian Science Teachers Association Inc. 2002