Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Identify and discuss the materials/properties of objects and sort them according to criteria.
• Test materials for their durability and toughness and consider the usefulness of materials for our everyday lives.
• Consider the question: if everything I touched became flexible, how would my life be different? Tell stories to each other about an average day in a world where nothing was rigid.

Activities

1. Identify and sort objects with different material properties.
2. Test fabrics for their durability and toughness and consider the everyday usefulness of materials.
3. Consider the importance of material properties by wondering what life would be like without it.

Investigation - sorting, classifying and identifying
Sort objects in the classroom according to these criteria: flexible, rigid, hard, soft, stretchy, stiff.

Vocabulary
Flexible, rigid, hard, soft, stretchy, stiff, strong, weak, rigid, flexible, material, properties