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Going, Going, Gone!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recognise that substances exist in different states depending on the temperature.
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Changing States of Matter
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore the way solids, liquids and gases change in different situations.
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Gases
A 60 minute lesson in which students will observe that gases have mass and take up space.
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Liquids
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the observable characteristics of liquids and how they behave in different ways.
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Solids
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the observable characteristics of solids and how they behave in different ways.
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Matter Matters!
Introduce key terms and concepts related to matter and states of matter with this Year 5 lesson plan.
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Material World Unit Assessment
An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of materials and their properties.
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Designing For Purpose - STEM Task Part 2
A 60 minute lesson in which students will apply their knowledge of material properties to the design and engineering process.
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Designing for a Purpose - STEM Task Part 1
A 60 minute lesson in which students will recreate the design process and build bird feeders from recyclable materials based on material properties.
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Which Material is Best?
A 60 minute lesson in which students will learn how to identify the function of a product and determine the best material for its production based on material properties.
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Manufacturing Mistakes
A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand that materials have different properties that are important when designers choose materials to make new products, or they run the risk of failed products.
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Structural vs. Functional Properties of Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students will consider the functional and structural properties of materials, and explain why those properties are necessary.
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Exploring Material Properties
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the properties of materials that make them most useful.
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Using Natural and Processed Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the use of natural and manmade materials by humans throughout history.
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Introducing Natural and Processed Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students will examine and understand the differences between natural and processed materials and their uses.
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Procedural Texts - Text Structure
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the structure of procedures.
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Publishing a Recipe Book
A 60 minute lesson in which students will publish a simple recipe for bush stew.
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Independent Writing - How to Make Bush Stew
A 60 minute lesson in which students will independently write a recipe for bush stew.
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Guided Writing - How To Make Fruit Salad
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple recipe for fruit salad in small groups.
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Modelled Writing - How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
A 60 minute lesson in which students will jointly construct a simple procedure about a familiar experience.
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Simon Says!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore action verbs, common nouns and adverbial phrases in procedures.
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Procedural Texts - Language Features
A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify and explore the language features of procedures.
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Instruct Me!
A 60 minute lesson in which students will explore how procedures provide instructions about completing a task.
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A Mixture of Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students analyse objects made of different materials and explain why those materials were used based on their properties.
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Choosing Materials That Work!
A 60 minute lesson in which students understand that some materials are more appropriate to use for certain objects or products than others based on the properties they possess.
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Sorting Scientists
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate and sort materials based on their properties.
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Properties of Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students develop an understanding of the properties of materials that make them useful for specific purposes.
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Identifying Types of Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students identify the material objects are made of and sort them in various ways.
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Describing Materials
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore the properties of materials and develop vocabulary to describe them.
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Diagram of the Solar System