What happens when things collide
Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide
How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
If your child rolls two balls towards each other, can they predict what will happen when they hit and explain that energy transfers between them?
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Curriculum alignment
Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 1 NSW
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another
pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
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.