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Explore changing solid-object shapes and choose materials using stated properties and test results. Saving is off unless you choose it.
Practise part of this topic: recognise ways of changing solid shapes and use example tests to choose suitable materials. These choices support reasoning but do not replace practical investigations.
Year 2 · Science
Suitability For Purpose
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Focus on choosing the best material for the job. Open support for “Choose Suitable Materials to Make Everyday Objects”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 2 learners practise choosing the best material for the job.
The activities include Choose Suitable Materials to Make Everyday Objects, Choose Suitable Solid Materials, Choose the Best Material Based on its Properties, 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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Materials for a purpose
Practise naming possible materials, using observed properties, classifying light transmission and choosing materials for a stated purpose. Includes safe shape-change recording and adult guidance; examples depend on the sample, form and thickness and cover selected skills, not whole topics.
7 pages · answers and adult guidance · selected skills, not the whole topic
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- Choose Suitable Materials to Make Everyday Objects — support from Oak National Academy
- Choose Suitable Solid Materials — support from Oak National Academy
- Choose the Best Material Based on its Properties — support from Oak National Academy
- Choose the Right Material — support from Oak National Academy
- Compare Different Materials — support from Oak National Academy
- Consider What Will Happen to Objects Based on the Material Used to Make Them — support from Oak National Academy
- Decide What Material Has a Particular Property — support from Oak National Academy
- Decide What Materials are Best for Different Objects — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify a Material from its Properties — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify and Compare Materials — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify the Best Material for Objects in Different Situations — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify the Mystery Material — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify the Properties of Materials Using Scientific Terms — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify Where Materials Come From — support from Oak National Academy
- Identify Whether Materials are Natural or Man-made — support from Oak National Academy
- Look at the Properties of Materials — support from Oak National Academy
- Match Materials to Their Properties — support from Oak National Academy
- Practise Identifying Materials from their Properties — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand Properties of Different Materials — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand What Different Objects are Made of — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand What Things are Made From — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand Whether Materials are Transparent, Translucent or Opaque — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand Why We Choose Particular Materials — support from Oak National Academy
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Science: Uses of Everyday Materials: Investigating Suitability Year 2 Lesson 4
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Science: Uses of Everyday Materials: Objects and Materials Year 2 Lesson 2
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