Squash, Bend, Twist and Stretch Cloze

Year 2 ScienceUses of Everyday Materials3 pages

About this worksheet

A three-page Year 2 cloze on changing the shape of solid objects. Pupils fill eleven gaps from an eleven-word bank, using each word once. The passage explains squashing a bath sponge or dough, stretching a rubber hair tie, bending a pipe cleaner and twisting a wet flannel. The last paragraph adds forces, with push and pull. In the Science Challenge, pupils choose squash, bend, twist or stretch and write a sentence about an object at school. A picture shows two children stretching a rubber band and squashing dough. The answer key lists the gaps in order.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Uses of everyday materials

โ€œFind out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.โ€

The passage gives an object for each of the four actions, and the Science Challenge asks pupils to apply one to a school object. Pupils read about the changes rather than test them.

What's inside this worksheet

Changing the Shape of Materials

A word bank of eleven words, including twist, sponge, rubber, hands and pull.

How Can We Change Everyday Materials?

Six short paragraphs with eleven gaps, one for each of the four actions plus push and pull.

Science Challenge

Pupils pick one action word and write a sentence about a school object they can change with it.

How teachers use it

Hands-on start

Give each table a sponge, a hair tie, a pipe cleaner and some play dough. Pupils try each action before they read the passage.

Act it out

Read the passage aloud and ask pupils to mime squash, stretch, bend or twist with their hands at each gap.

Push and pull

The last two gaps bring in forces. Stop there and ask pupils which of the four actions is a push and which is a pull.

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