Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Identify and discuss the materials/properties of objects on a table (Yr1).
• Sort objects in the classroom according to these criteria: hard, soft, stretchy, stiff, bendy/floppy (Yr2).
• 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 were rigid.

Activities

1. Understand materials and their properties by sorting and classifying objects.
2. Understand the properties of materials using terms such as: hard, soft, stretchy, stiff, bendy/floppy.
3. 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.
Year 1/2 - Understand the properties of materials using terms such as hard/ soft / stretchy/ stiff/ bendy/ floppy.

Vocabulary
Magnetic, non-magnetic, metal, materials, properties