Materials and Their Properties
Children explore four everyday materials — wood, metal, plastic and fabric — describe them with words like hard, soft, bendy and…
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- 20 min
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- 12 questions
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- Answers included
4 free chemical sciences resources for Year 1: 4 worksheets. Answers included.
Materials, their properties and how they change. Year 1 students count, order and add numbers to 20 and beyond, start to use place value (tens and ones), tell o'clock and half-past time and recognise coins.
Students will practise: naming common materials; describing materials by their properties; choosing a material that suits a job; testing materials and recording results; identifying where materials come from; sorting materials into natural and made; naming the material an object is made of; observing and recording.
Printable practice with an answer sheet.
Children explore four everyday materials — wood, metal, plastic and fabric — describe them with words like hard, soft, bendy and…
Children learn that some materials come from nature — wood from trees, wool from sheep, stone from the ground — and others, like plastic…
Children predict and test which everyday objects float or sink in water, learn that big things do not always sink and that shape can…
Children learn that pushing and pulling can change the shape of some materials — squashing play dough, bending a pipe cleaner, twisting a…
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Materials, their properties and how they change. At Year 1, our resources focus on: naming common materials; describing materials by their properties; choosing a material that suits a job; testing materials and recording results.
Start with the Level 1 or Level 2 worksheet, then move up a level. Finish with the topic test if there is one.
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