Everyday Materials End of Unit Quiz

Year 1 ScienceEveryday Materials5 pages

About this worksheet

This Year 1 end-of-unit assessment has ten questions in three sections, and every question has a picture. Section 1 asks pupils to name the material of a chair and a spoon, pick the object from key and metal, and tick the materials of three spoons. Section 2 gives ten property words and asks about a woollen jumper, sandpaper and wellington boots. Section 3 picks the soft object from a brick, a stone, a block and a teddy, then asks what a jar, a bottle and glasses share. A one-page key gives all ten answers. It covers all four England National Curriculum statements on everyday materials.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Everyday materials

โ€œDistinguish between an object and the material from which it is madeโ€

Question 3 asks which of key and metal is the object, and question 4 shows one object in three materials.

Everyday materials

โ€œIdentify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rockโ€

Questions 1, 2 and 5 use these six words as the word bank.

Everyday materials

โ€œDescribe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materialsโ€

Questions 6 to 8 ask for soft, rough and waterproof.

Everyday materials

โ€œCompare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical propertiesโ€

Questions 9 and 10 group objects as hard, soft or see-through.

What's inside this worksheet

Objects and Materials

Five questions with a six-word bank, ending with a ruler, a toy train and a chopping board made from one material.

Properties of Everyday Materials

Pupils circle soft for the jumper and rough for the sandpaper, then write the property that keeps wellington boots dry.

Sorting and Grouping Materials

Pupils name the one soft object among three hard ones, then explain what a jar, a bottle and a pair of glasses have in common.

Answers

All ten answers in a short list, from wood for question 1 to transparent for question 10.

How teachers use it

Read it aloud

Read each question to pupils who are not yet reading on their own. Answers are a tick, a circle or one word, so writing does not get in the way.

Look at 4 and 10

These two test the idea behind the words. A pupil who names materials well but misses them needs more sorting practice.

Bring the spoons

Before or after the quiz, show a wooden, a metal and a plastic spoon. Pupils who have held them rarely tick glass in question 4.

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