Objectives:         Students will be able to recognise simple properties of materials, such as strength, flexibility, transparency, hardness, elasticity.

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Teaching and learning sequence:

• Activate prior knowledge - everyday materials - what are they made of?

• Class discussion and word wall of vocabulary - type of material .

• Watch video on properties of materials.

• Class discussion - how to describe materials - strong, waterproof, flexible, hard, soft, etc.  Enhance word wall.

• Group work - select a material and identify characteristics of materials - describing words.

• Discuss words and identify meaning.  Dictionary activity & interactive.

• CFU:  Game -  Cards around room (eg: waterproof, flexible, strong, transparent - see Game Cards resource).   Teacher describes characteristic.  Students move to correct characteristic.

• Group work - Predict and test certain materials for strength, flexibility, waterproof, transparency (See Worksheet).

• Reinforce & CFU - interactive game.

• Reflection - recap of vocabulary, new learnings and understandings

 

Resources:

• Selection of everyday materials eg: fabric shirt, metal spoon,  plastic bag, paper towel, wooden peg, etc.

• Whiteboard / butchers paper, pens

• IWB & video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAEQDu7juEg

• Interactive: BBC Bitesize:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/material_properties/read/2/

• Dictionary

• Game cards  

• Test stations for predicting and testing - materials, water, weights

• Worksheet:  Predict and Test

• Interactive Game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/characteristics_materials.shtml

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