Materials Hunt at Home

Year 1 ScienceEveryday Materials6 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 1 science homework in five short parts. Children first tick whether plastic, chair, wood and toy car are objects or materials, with a note for grown-ups that uses a spoon and metal. Then they name the material in six pictures, from a wooden block to a puddle, using wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock. The home hunt asks for four objects and their materials. Last, they draw a favourite object, describe it with a property word and say why a window is glass, not wood. Answers are included. It covers England National Curriculum work 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€

Part 1 sorts four words into objects and materials, and the hunt table keeps the two apart.

Everyday materials

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

Part 2 uses all six of these materials as its word bank.

Everyday materials

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

Question 15 asks for one property word, and question 16 asks why glass suits a window.

What's inside this worksheet

Object or Material?

Children tick Object or Material for four words, and a note for grown-ups explains the difference.

Name the Material

Six pictures, including a key, a garden stone and a puddle, each with a box for one word from the bank.

Home Materials Hunt

A table for four objects found at home, with a spoon and metal filled in as the example.

Spot the Special Object and Thinking Challenge

Children draw one favourite object, complete three sentences about it, then write why a window pane is glass.

Answers

The ticks, the six materials, example finds such as a saucepan or a jar, and a model answer about light.

How teachers use it

Set it after a sort

Send it home once the class has sorted a tray of objects in a lesson. The grown-ups note on page 1 repeats the spoon and metal example from class.

Bring a find back

Ask each child to bring one object from the hunt table to school. Build a class display by material from what they bring.

Window talk

Use question 16 as partner talk the next morning. Listen for see-through and light, the two ideas in the answer key.

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