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Materials Scavenger Hunt

Materials Scavenger Hunt
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Description

Students set off around the classroom or playground in search of examples of each category of material. This worksheet can be done as a competitive scavenger hunt, or a collaborative class activity.

Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
Curriculum Codes

AC9S2I02 9

Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions

AC9S2I01 9

Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences

AC9S2H01 9

Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions

AC9TDE2K02 9

Explore how technologies including materials affect movement in products

AC9S2I03 9

Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate

AC9S2I04 9

Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models

AC9TDE2K01 9

Identify how familiar products, services and environments are designed and produced by people to meet personal or local community needs and sustainability

AC9TDEFK01 9

Explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people

AC9S2I05 9

Compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance

AC9S2I06 9

Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary

ACSSU031 8.4

Different materials can be combined for a particular purpose

ACTDEK004 8.4

Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions

ACSIS037 8.4

Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events

ACSHE034 8.4

Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events

ACSIS038 8.4

Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions

ACSIS039 8.4

Use informal measurements to collect and record observations, using digital technologies as appropriate

ACTDEK001 8.4

Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

ACSIS040 8.4

Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables and through discussion, compare observations with predictions

ACSIS041 8.4

Compare observations with those of others

ACSIS042 8.4

Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways

VCSIS050

Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events

VCSIS051

Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions

VCDSTC017

Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to create designed solutions

VCSIS052

Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations

VCSIS053

Use a range of methods, including drawings and provided tables, to sort information

VCDSTS013

Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

VCSIS054

Compare observations and predictions with those of others

VCSIS055

Represent and communicate observations and ideas about changes in objects and events in a variety of ways

ST1-11DI-T old

Identifies the components of digital systems and explores how data is represented

ST1-3DP-T old

Describes, follows and represents algorithms to solve problems

STe-1WS-S old

Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas

STe-2DP-T old

Develops solutions to an identified need

ST1-1WS-S old

Observes, questions and collects data to communicate and compare ideas

ST1-9PW-ST old

Investigates how forces and energy are used in products

ST1-8PW-S old

Describes common forms of energy and explores some characteristics of sound energy

ST1-5LW-T old

Identifies how plants and animals are used for food and fibre products

ST1-4LW-S old

Describes observable features of living things and their environments

ST1-7MW-T old

Describes how the properties of materials determine their use

ST1-6MW-S old

Identifies that materials can be changed or combined

ST1-2DP-T old

Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity

ST1-10ES-S old

Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s resources

Differentiation

Modifications

Students who might struggle to write a description of the item they’ve found can draw a picture of it, or even use a tablet or phone to take a picture of the examples they come across.

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