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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.

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Year 2 · Science

Suitability For Purpose

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Focus on choosing the best material for the job. Start with “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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Materials And Their Uses

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Where Materials Come From

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