Lesson Four – House Building
This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and describe the individual properties of some of the different materials that can be used to build parts of a house.
The class can name some of the materials that can be used to build different parts of a house that match a material property such as glass for windows and bricks for walls.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe the individual properties of some of the different materials that can be used to build parts of a house
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the common materials that can be used to build a house and a worksheet to record the correct and incorrect materials that can be used to build different parts of a house.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore the properties of different materials that can be used to build parts of a house.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify, group and compare a variety of everyday materials used for a range of different functions on the basis of their physical properties. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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