Uses of Everyday Materials
Year 2 children have began their topic of ‘Uses of Everyday Materials’. Each week children will lead the investigations by thinking of their own enquiry questions which they can then investigate as a class.
Throughout the term, the children will:
Identifying and comparing materials of different objects.
Identify and compare the properties of different materials and suitability of a variety of everyday materials, through investigation.
Explain use of materials and how materials are useful in different situations and suggest suitable materials for new situations
Group objects by materials they are made form.
Explain how inventors (scientists) have made new materials.
Through investigations, find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.
The vocabulary we will be looking at are:
materials
reversible
irreversible
solution
metals
wood
plastic
substance
glass
brick
rock
paper
cardboard
transparent
absorbent
stretchy
opaque
scientists
elastic
property
waterproof
weak
strong
