Which Material Is Best? Worksheet Pack

Support your Year 2–Year 4 students as they explore how materials are chosen for everyday products with a Which Material Is Best? worksheet pack. Our Which Material Is Best? Worksheet Pack helps learners understand that products are designed and manufactured using specific materials with specific purposes, and that the materials used must have the right properties to do the job well.

Five Printable Properties of Materials Handouts

This download includes five printable Properties of Materials Handouts, each focusing on a different way students can investigate and apply their understanding of material properties:

• Name That Property Vocabulary Worksheet – Students complete statements about products using vocabulary related to material properties.
• Material Match Up Worksheet – Learners connect different products and objects to the properties that make them the most useful, such as strong, flexible, waterproof, absorbent, durable, and transparent.
• Mixed Up Materials Cut and Paste Worksheet – Students look at everyday objects and sort them based on whether they have the properties of absorbency, flexibility, and strength.
• The Material Mix UP Worksheet – Students analyse incorrectly made products, determine the property needed to make it useful, and tell which material would be best to use.
• Name That Material Worksheet– Students look at images of everyday objects and tell the material or materials they’re made from.

Download These Properties of Materials Worksheets Today

These Properties of Materials Worksheets are available in both PDF and editable Google Slides format.  To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose your preferred file type.

This resource was created by Brittany Kellogg, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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