Lesson Planning

Teaching

Activities

  1. Look at a selection of fabric and understand why stretchy fabric is sometimes used in clothing.
  2. Investigate and explore the elasticity of fabric and make predictions.
  3. Begin to understand how to make a test fair and to record results in a bar chart.

Investigation - exploring, pattern seeking, problem solving
Talk about how to test fabric's elasticity properties, make predictions and devise an investigation based on attaching weights to the ends of strips of fabric.

Vocabulary
Shape, changed, twist/twisting, squash/squashing, bend/bending, stretch/stretching, material, properties