Material World Teaching Resources
This extensive collection of teaching resources contains everything you will need to teach your students about the properties and uses of natural and processed materials. This collection contains unit and lesson plans, educational posters, word wall vocabulary, science experiments, teaching presentations, hands-on activities, worksheets, classroom decorations and more.
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Freedom of Choice PowerPoint - Developing Scientific Lines of Questioning
A teaching presentation discussing the development of scientific lines of questioning.
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Natural Science PowerPoint - How Do People Use Natural Resources?
A teaching presentation discussing natural resources and how humans interact with them.
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Sorting Objects by Property Template
A template to use when sorting objects using the sense of touch and sight.
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Material World Resource Pack
33 pages of worksheets, posters and classroom displays about about natural and man-made materials
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Properties of Materials Unit Plan
This Chemical Sciences unit investigates the observable properties of materials. Descriptive vocabulary is explored as well as the suitability of materials for different purposes.
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Making Monsters
A 60 minute lesson in which students design and create a 3D monster using objects made from materials with different properties.
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Keep Me Dry
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how water resistant they are.
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Give Me Some Shade
A 60 minute lesson in which students investigate materials to determine how much shade they provide.
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What Works Best?
A 60 minute lesson in which students develop an understanding of the suitability of certain materials for different purposes.
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Let's Sort!
A 60 minute lesson in which students identify the material objects are made of and sort them in various ways.
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Diving Into Description
A 60 minute lesson in which students explore the properties of materials and develop vocabulary to describe them.