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Uses of Materials (Science)

This project teaches children about the uses of everyday materials and how materials' properties make them suitable or unsuitable for specific purposes. They begin to explore how materials can be changed.

Innovate challenge

Let's investigate focus: Asking and answering questions

Science

Identifying materials and their properties; Shaping materials; Uses of materials; Linking properties to use; Sustainability and recycling; Working scientifically – Identifying and classifying, Pattern seeking, Comparative tests, Research

📗 Recommended text

Non-fictionWaterstonesAmazonAuthorISBN
Everyday Materials (Ways into Science) Waterstones AmazonPeter Riley9781445134802
Materials (Fact Cat) Waterstones AmazonIzzi Howell9781526301703
Everyday Materials (FUNdamental Science) Waterstones AmazonRuth Owen9781910549858
Materials: How Things Work (Science in Action) Waterstones AmazonAnna Claybourne9781784930998
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Plastic (Usborne) Waterstones AmazonKatie Daynes9781474963381
📗 Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Recycling and Rubbish (Usborne) Waterstones AmazonKatie Daynes9781474950664
See Inside Recycling and Rubbish (An Usborne Flap Book) Waterstones AmazonAlex Frith9781409507413
📗 What a Waste: Rubbish, Recycling and Protecting our Planet Waterstones AmazonJess French9780241366912
     
FictionWaterstonesAmazonAuthorISBN
The Three Little Pigs Waterstones AmazonAxel Scheffler9780702307843
An Engineer Like Me Waterstones AmazonDr Shini Somara9781526362018
📗 Somebody Swallowed Stanley Waterstones AmazonSarah Roberts9781407195100
📗 Where's the Starfish? Waterstones AmazonBarroux9781405271394
📗 Clem and Crab Waterstones AmazonFiona Lumbers9781783449149
                                                                                                        
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