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Year 1 · Science

Objects And Materials

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Focus on choosing the right material for an object. Open support for “Choose Different Materials to Make the Same Object”, then explain the idea in your own words.

Year 1 learners practise choosing the right material for an object.

The activities include Choose Different Materials to Make the Same Object, Choose the Correct Material, Choose the Material, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, interactive, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

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  • Look, sort and test materials

    Distinguish an object from its material, record observed properties, group real samples and use a small absorption test to explain a material choice. A small selection of materials and properties, not the full Year 1 materials curriculum. No material-origin or seasonal activity is claimed. Bending depends on the sample and shape. The water task explores absorption; it does not prove waterproofness.

    7 pages · answers and adult guidance · selected skills, not the whole topic

  • Objects, materials and where they come from

    Distinguish objects from materials, follow simplified source chains, compare made and naturally occurring examples, and explain a material choice. Partial activity-backed practice; appearance alone cannot identify coatings or composites, and source chains do not prove a complete manufacturing history.

    7 pages · answers and adult guidance · selected skills, not the whole topic

  • Compare material properties and choose a use

    Compare the printed samples by texture, flexibility and light transmission, then choose a material for a stated use. Partial activity-backed practice with safe adult-led observations; no universal material-property, product-safety or whole-topic mastery claim.

    7 pages · answers and adult guidance · selected skills, not the whole topic

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Everyday Materials | Year 1 Science Lesson

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Materials and their uses

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Everyday Objects And Materials

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Where materials come from

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Everyday materials

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Everyday materials - KS1 Science

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Materials and their uses lesson slides

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Everyday Materials Fact Cards

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Everyday objects and materials lesson slides

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Materials and their uses worksheet and quizzes

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