Sorting Materials by Their Properties

Year 1 ScienceEveryday Materials4 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 1 science sort built around a muddled discovery box. Page 1 gives six property words with pictures: hard, rigid, soft, squashy, see-through and transparent. On page 2, pupils write fourteen objects, such as a cotton wool ball, a brick and a spectacle lens, into three columns. Two columns say not see-through, so the glass jar and the lenses belong in the third. Page 3 asks which object was trickiest and why, then sends pupils to find one classroom object for each group. The answers include a teacher note on glass. It covers England National Curriculum work on grouping everyday materials.

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Sorting Materials by Their Properties: Everyday Materials - page 1

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Sorting Materials by Their Properties: Everyday Materials - page 3

Curriculum objectives covered

Everyday materials

“Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties”

Question 1 sorts fourteen objects into three property groups, and question 3 adds a classroom object to each.

Everyday materials

“Describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials”

The page 1 word bank gives the property words, and question 2 asks pupils to explain a hard but see-through object.

What's inside this worksheet

Property words

Six word cards, each with a picture, from a boy pressing a rock for hard to a window for transparent.

Sort the objects

Pupils write fourteen pictured objects into Hard and rigid, Soft or squashy, and See-through columns.

Think About the Properties

Pupils name the trickiest object to place, then write a new classroom object for each of the three groups.

Answers

The completed sort, a note on why the hard glass items go in the see-through column, and example classroom objects.

How teachers use it

Feel first

Before the sheet, pass round a cotton wool ball, a brick and a clear plastic cup. Pupils say hard, soft or see-through for each one.

Point at the brackets

The glass jar and lenses are hard, but they go in the see-through column. Read the words in brackets under the first two headings before pupils start.

Classroom hunt

Give pupils two minutes for question 3 and a clipboard. Share finds such as the window, a carpet square and a whiteboard at the end.

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