Wood or Plastic Venn Diagram

Year 2 ScienceUses of Everyday Materials3 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 2 sorting sheet on wood and plastic. A workshop has a mixed-up delivery of twelve objects, and pupils sort each one into a three-column table: Only Wood, Both Wood and Plastic, or Only Plastic. Items include a cricket bat, a treehouse, a Lego brick, a carrier bag and a school ruler. Two Detective Questions ask for the hardest item and one new item for each column. The answer key puts the chopping board, ruler, dining chair and toy train in the middle column. It follows the England National Curriculum objective on choosing materials for their uses.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Uses of everyday materials

โ€œIdentify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular usesโ€

Partly met. Pupils compare wood and plastic for twelve uses, but metal, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard are not on this sheet.

What's inside this worksheet

Sorting Materials: Wood and Plastic

Twelve objects and a three-column table. Pupils decide if each one is made from wood, plastic or either.

Detective Questions

Pupils explain their hardest choice and add a new item to each column, such as a guitar or a yoghurt pot.

How teachers use it

Two rulers

Bring a wooden ruler and a plastic one. They show why the key puts the ruler in the middle column.

Why not wood

Ask why a carrier bag or clingfilm could not be made of wood. Pupils start to use words like bendy and waterproof.

Look around the room

For question 2, let pupils search the classroom for a new item before they write.

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