Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different common materials and explain how they can be used for different purposes, a set of cards to select and sort different materials into groups by their matching common properties and templates to record a material that can be used to make a specific type of clothing and build the design for an item of clothing using a range of fabrics.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to describe and compare properties of materials that can be used for different items of clothing.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to select and combine a range of different shapes, colours and patterns that can be used to design and print a t-shirt for a specific function or event. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.