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1. Introduction
Click here for an introduction to characteristics of materials.
Click here for a worksheet on the properties of materials.
Click here for a lesson plan on the property of materials.
Click here for which material should you choose.
2. Finding useful materials
Click here on finding and classifying different types of materials.
Click here for worksheet on different materials and why we use them.
Click here for the characteristics of materials worksheet from the BBC
Click here for the worksheet on everyday uses of a material.
3. Properties of materials
Click here for the way to teach about properties of materials.
Click here to interactivly test the properties of materials online.
Click here for lesson plans on properties of materials and their everyday uses.
Click here for the lesson plan on the properties of 6 different types of plastic.
4. Choosing materials for a purpose
Click here for lesson ideas for choosing a particular material for a purpose.
Click here for worksheet on suitable and unsuitable materials.
Click here for a lesson plan from the BBC on suitable and unsuitable materials.
Click here for worksheet and lesson plans on what to wear in different weather - see page 12 of this link for worksheet and details.
5. Testing properties of materials
6. Testing absorbency
7. Testing ‘stretchiness’
Click here for teaching ideas on testing the properties of materials.
Click here for lesson plans on testing different resources.
Click here for testing the properties of materials.
Click here for ideas of testing properites of materials. Look at Page 3.
Click here for the lesson plan to testing absorbency.
Click here for lesson plans on paper absorbancy.
Click here to worksheets on absorbancy lessons.
Click here for results of an absorbancy test.
Click here for another set of lesson plans.
Click here for ideas of how to teach about measuring stretchiness.
Click here for lesson plans on stretching.
Click here for a great set of resources for recording the stretch in tights.
Click here worksheet on page 4.