Lesson Two – Sorting Materials
This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and sort a selection of common materials used in a family home into different groups according to their matching properties.
The class can name and list a selection of objects that can be found around the school to match different material properties such as hard, smooth and bendy.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and sort a selection of common materials used in a family home into different groups according to their matching properties
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe a range of common materials used to make household objects, a set of cards to sort objects into matching material groups and a template to select and record materials that have been used to make a range of different household objects.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to sort a selection of common materials into different groups according to their matching properties.
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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Family Homes
Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing
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Family Rooms
Select sentences to complete speech bubbles to record what different characters might say in response to some of the different events that happened in a story with a familiar setting
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Food Labels
Select descriptive vocabulary words that can be added to labels describing some of the different types of foods that could be eaten by a family for breakfast, lunch and dinner
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Family Sentences
Select and model how to add a range of cvc words to complete different sentences about some of the special things that might happen in a family home as part of a narrative story