Key Vocabulary Key Scientific facts Absorbent Materials can be naturally occurring or manufactured. All materials have different properties - manufactured air this means they look and feel different and behave in different ways. material attract bendy natural bubbles Materials exist as solids, liquids or gases. opaque colour paper crumble particles We can sort materials according to similarities and differences in their properties. dull plastic fabric pour float properties Not all liquids are the same. They look and feel different. All liquids will pour. Thicker liquids glass rigid pour more slowly. Liquids take the of their container. grains rock group rough Dry sand will pour like a liquid and take the shape of its container. In a flat tray, dry sand will hard rubbish pile up but water will spread to fill the tray. This is because sand is not a liquid. It is made up of heavy sand lots of tiny solids. scratch
Key Vocabulary Key Scientific facts Absorbent air attract bendy bubbles colour crumble dull fabric float glass grains group hard heavy manufactured material natural opaque paper particles plastic pour properties rigid rock rough rubbish sand scratch Materials can be naturally occurring or manufactured. All materials have different properties - this means they look and feel different and behave in different ways. Materials exist as solids, liquids or gases. We can sort materials according to similarities and differences in their properties. Not all liquids are the same. They look and feel different. All liquids will pour. Thicker liquids pour more slowly. Liquids take the of their container. Dry sand will pour like a liquid and take the shape of its container. In a flat tray, dry sand will pile up but water will spread to fill the tray. This is because sand is not a liquid. It is made up of lots of tiny solids.