VC2S4U04
Parents start here
Your child is learning to sort things into solids, liquids, and gases.
- Define solids (fixed shape, hard to compress), liquids (flow, take shape of container), gases (spread out, fill space)
- Sort at least eight everyday materials into solid, liquid, or gas categories
One skill from the map, ages 8–9 — its page has the rest of the checklist and what comes next. Candidate alignment, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
A Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 content description in Science, Levels 3 and 4. The description text is © VCAA and not reproduced here — read the official wording at the VCAA site.
Official source: Victorian Curriculum F–10 V2.0 — Science ↗ · content © VCAA (CC-BY-NC) · codes shown as reference labels only
Closest Australian Curriculum v9 codes
The national codes this Victorian code most closely corresponds to — machine-suggested candidates, unreviewed (v0.1).
investigate the observable properties of solids and liquids and how adding or removing heat energy leads to a change of state
explain observable properties of solids, liquids and gases by modelling the motion and arrangement of particles
identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another
Other skills on the Learning Map matched to this code — candidate alignments, machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1).
high confidence2 skills
6 other candidate matches — 2 medium, 4 low
medium confidence
low confidence
Alignments generated 9 July 2026, unreviewed.
Nearby in the Science Understanding strand (Levels 3 and 4):
VC2S4U01VC2S4U02VC2S4U03VC2S4U05VC2S4U06VC2S4U07VC2S4U08VC2S4U09
Teaching this? Learning Map for teachers has the sequencing view and copy-paste words to send home.