Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Play 'Odd One Out' (identify and discuss the materials/properties of objects on a table).
- Sort objects in the classroom according to these criteria: hard, soft, stretchy, stiff, bendy/floppy.
- Consider the question: if everything I touched became flexible (floppy), how would my life be different? Tell stories to each other about an average day in a world where nothing was rigid.
Activities
- Further understanding of materials and properties by sorting and classifying objects.
- Talk about the properties of materials using terms such as: hard, soft, stretchy, stiff, bendy/floppy.
- Imagine and wonder at a world where a material property was missing, such as rigidity.
Investigation - sorting, classifying and identifying
Sort objects in the classroom according to these criteria: hard, soft, stretchy, stiff, bendy/floppy.
Vocabulary
Rough/smooth, flat/bumpy, sharp/blunt, wood, metal, plastic, glass, rock, materials, properties