By the Phillip Island Village School

Literacy is in everything!

One of the passions of our PIVS Mentors is the integration of different learning areas.

Procedural writing became explosive in Cycle 2, when Allstars Mentor Cass integrated literacy sessions with an exciting unit of chemistry.

Each lesson students undertook a range of different experiments. 

They learned to identify the differences between physical and chemical reactions and recorded these experiments using procedural language in the form of a supplies list, a hypothesis, a sequenced method, observations, and a conclusion.

Students were also exposed to a rich range of science vocabulary such as variables, predictions, evidence, density, acidity, explanations and more.

Students tested acids and bases, created exothermic reactions, learned about the properties of non-Newtonian fluids like slime (made in a few different ways), tested the way in which ingredient texture affects experimental outcomes, and explored chemical and physical changes in materials.