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.
Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions
Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences
Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions
Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate
Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models
Identify how familiar products, services and environments are designed and produced by people to meet personal or local community needs and sustainability
Compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance
Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary
Different materials can be combined for a particular purpose
Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions
Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events
Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions
Use informal measurements to collect and record observations, using digital technologies as appropriate
Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs
Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables and through discussion, compare observations with predictions
Compare observations with those of others
Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways
Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events
Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions
Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to create designed solutions
Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations
Use a range of methods, including drawings and provided tables, to sort information
Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs
Compare observations and predictions with those of others
Represent and communicate observations and ideas about changes in objects and events in a variety of ways
Identifies the components of digital systems and explores how data is represented
Describes, follows and represents algorithms to solve problems
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
Develops solutions to an identified need
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate and compare ideas
Investigates how forces and energy are used in products
Describes common forms of energy and explores some characteristics of sound energy
Identifies how plants and animals are used for food and fibre products
Describes observable features of living things and their environments
Describes how the properties of materials determine their use
Identifies that materials can be changed or combined
Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s resources
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.