1 Children will have shared Children work in small groups of no more than four. Give each group Class list of materials Go on a material hunt at home. which materials they can samples of wood, metal, hard plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper, How many identify. cardboard, rubber and different fabrics. Allow them time to Photographs of labelled materials plastic/metal/rubber/fabric explore the different materials. objects can you find? What is the most used NC material in your house? The things in of you are all examples of different materials. Identify and compare the Everything in our world is made out of different kinds of materials. suitability of a variety of In their groups, children list as many different materials as they everyday materials, including can. wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and Share their ideas and make a class list. cardboard for particular uses Play a game of Show Meʼ. Ask children, on the count of ʻAltogether, three, to lift up a named material from those in their collection. Identifying and (Include use of the term ʻfabricʼ.) classifying Children go on different hunts in the classroom or the playground, finding objects made entirely out of one material, e.g. rubber (an eraser) or hard plastic (a ruler). They then find objects made out of a combination of more than one material, e.g. plastic and metal (a pencil sharpener) or glass, plastic and metal (a computer). Ask children to name the different materials in the objects made out of more than one material. They could label these with sticky notes. If there are displays of materials in the classroom, allow children to add some of their objects to collections of the same material. Differentiation LA Restrict the to objects made from only one material. HA Include different types of wood and/or metal. out for
1 Children will have shared which materials they can identify. NC Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses Identifying and classifying Children work in small groups of no more than four. Give each group samples of wood, metal, hard plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper, cardboard, rubber and different fabrics. Allow them time to explore the different materials. The things in of you are all examples of different materials. Everything in our world is made out of different kinds of materials. In their groups, children list as many different materials as they can. Share their ideas and make a class list. Play a game of ʻAltogether, Show Meʼ. Ask children, on the count of three, to lift up a named material from those in their collection. (Include use of the term ʻfabricʼ.) Children go on different hunts in the classroom or the playground, finding objects made entirely out of one material, e.g. rubber (an eraser) or hard plastic (a ruler). They then find objects made out of a combination of more than one material, e.g. plastic and metal (a pencil sharpener) or glass, plastic and metal (a computer). Ask children to name the different materials in the objects made out of more than one material. They could label these with sticky notes. If there are displays of materials in the classroom, allow children to add some of their objects to collections of the same material. Differentiation LA Restrict the to objects made from only one material. HA Include different types of wood and/or metal. out for Class list of materials Photographs of labelled materials Go on a material hunt at home. How many plastic/metal/rubber/fabric objects can you find? What is the most used material in your house?
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