Investigating the Fire Triangle Model

Investigating the Fire Triangle Model

Lesson 5 of 11 in this unit

  • Cool+
  • Primary
  • Year 5
  • Science
  • Inquiry Skills
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Social
  • Indigenous Education
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students investigate the conditions that are required to start and sustain fires, and how these three elements impact the practice of cool burning.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand the three conditions required to start and sustain fires
  • understand the differences between hot and cool burning.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • conduct experiments that demonstrate the importance of a number of variables in sustaining a fire. 

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Curriculum mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Science:

Students learn to:

  • plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions, including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place (AC9S5I02)

Cross Curriculum Priority: SustainabilityAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
By the end of Year 5, students plan safe investigations to identify patterns and relationships and make reasoned predictions. They identify variables to be changed and measured.

Skills

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

  • communication
  • critical thinking
  • cultural understanding
  • collaboration

Additional info

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - review students’ knowledge and identify their misconceptions, assist students with simple chemistry concepts, assess student outcomes.

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

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