Science Energyusually ages 7–9

Naming types of energy

Name and use vocabulary for types of energy and energy transfer — kinetic energy, potential energy, heat energy, light energy, sound energy, electrical energy, chemical energy, stored energy, energy transfer, energy transformation — and describe energy changes in familiar situations using these terms

How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Name the type of energy stored in a battery, a stretched spring, and a moving ball
Use 'energy transfer' or 'energy transformation' to describe what happens in a simple device such as a torch or a toaster
Distinguish between 'stored energy' and 'transferred energy' with a correct example of each

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If your child stretches a rubber band and lets it go, can they name what type of energy it had when stretched — and what it changed into?

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Naming types of energythis skill · ages 7–9

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How energy travels aroundages 9–10Describing energy transfer by sound, light, heat, and electric current requires energy type vocabulary

Speed and energyages 9–10Relating an object's speed to its energy requires 'kinetic energy' vocabulary

Energy can't be created or destroyedages 11–12Explaining conservation of energy and dissipation requires energy store and transfer vocabulary

Energy stores and transfersages 11–12Identifying energy stores and transfer pathways is a formalisation of the energy type vocabulary introduced earlier

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Curriculum alignment

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

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S3U03low confidenceYear 3 · Science understanding

identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another

AC9S2U02low confidenceYear 2 · Science understanding

explore different actions to make sounds and how to make a variety of sounds, and recognise that sound energy causes objects to vibrate

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

ST2-SCI-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Stage 2

ST2-DAT-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2TDE6C01medium confidenceDesign and Technologies · Levels 5 and 6 · Technologies Contexts strand

VC2S4U09medium confidenceScience · Levels 3 and 4 · Science Understanding strand

VC2S6U09low 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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