Temperature & Thermometers
Understand temperature as how hot or cold something is, that a thermometer measures temperature, and use words like hot, warm, cool, and cold to describe how the air feels on different days
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If your child saw a thermometer outside, could they explain that it tells us how hot or cold the air is, and describe today as hot, warm, cool, or cold?
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Curriculum alignment
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Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another
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.