The fire triangle

Fire is the visible effect of the process of combustion – a special type of chemical reaction. It occurs between...

Below are links to Science Learning Hub resources for primary teachers related to heat in the Physical World strand of...

Using the huge 2019 Nelson wildfire as a starter, this Connected article explores wildfires, focussing on:

These are some common misunderstandings about fire. They acknowledge that children have made reasonable sense of the ideas based on...

Learning to manage this chemical reaction

Oxygen is a chemical element – a substance that contains only one type of atom. Its official chemical symbol is...