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ScienceMatter & Materialsusually ages 9–10

Dissolving & Solutions

Understand that some materials dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution by evaporation

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Can your child explain what happens when sugar dissolves in tea, and figure out how to get the salt back from salty water?

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Builds on
Changes & Separation Vocabularyages 7–9Understanding dissolving and solutions requires 'dissolve', 'solution', 'soluble', 'insoluble' from the process vocabulary node
Advanced Material Propertiesages 9–11Must understand solubility as a property before learning dissolving and recovery in detail
Evaporation & the Water Cycleages 8–9Evaporation knowledge supports understanding recovery of dissolved substances
Dissolving & Solutionsthis skill · ages 9–10
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Reversible Changesages 9–10Must understand dissolving before demonstrating it is reversible
Separating Mixturesages 9–10Must understand dissolving and solutions before choosing separation methods
Pure Substances & Mixturesages 11–13KS3 purity and formulations extends KS2 dissolving and solutions

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 2 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S6U04low confidenceYear 6 · Science understanding

compare reversible changes, including dissolving and changes of state, and irreversible changes, including cooking and rusting that produce new substances

AC9S4U02low confidenceYear 4 · Science understanding

identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S6U04low confidenceScience · Levels 5 and 6 · Science Understanding strand
VC2S6U03low confidenceScience · Levels 5 and 6 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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Advanced Material Propertiesages 9–11 Irreversible Changesages 9–11 Material Properties Vocabularyages 9–11 Reversible Changesages 9–10

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