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Be a scientist

Be a scientist

This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
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Natural or man-made worksheet

Natural or man-made

Worksheet to prompt your child to consider whether different objects are natural or man-made.
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Find and label materials

Find and label materials

This activity will teach your child the different properties of many common materials and help them identify why they are used.
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Sorting materials into sets activity

Sorting materials into sets

A worksheet with boxes for sorting different materials into sets according to their properties.
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Investigating and comparing materials

Investigating and comparing materials

Develop your child's understanding of materials and their different properties.
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Materials to build a house worksheet

Materials to build a house

This worksheet encourages children to think about what materials they would need to build a house and why.
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What material is it made of?

What material is it made of?

Your child will develop their knowledge of materials and their properties with this fun to do worksheet.
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Select material properties worksheet

Select material properties

A worksheet to help your child think about the properties of different materials, with prompt words at the bottom.
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Learning about materials activity

Learning about materials

This Key Stage 1 science download is about the characteristics of materials and will help your child to think about why we use materials the way we do in constructing everyday objects.
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Useful gases around us worksheet

Useful gases around us

A worksheet encouraging your child to research into how different gases are used to help us in everyday life.
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The properties of different materials

The properties of different materials

This kids' science activity looks at the properties of fabrics.
It is aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils and should be done with a parent or carer.
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Blindfold Feeling Game

Blindfold Feeling Game

Help your child to use their sense of touch to feel different hard and soft objects and then try to guess what they are.
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Blindfold Smelling Game

Blindfold Smelling Game

Help your child to use their sense of smell to work out which food or drink is put in front of them.
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Blindfold Tasting Game

Blindfold Tasting Game

Encourage your child to use their sense of taste and descriptive skills to work out which food they are eating when blindfolded.
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Design a toy activity

Design a toy

Work with your child to draw a design for a toy using labels. Your child can then make the toy and invite someone to play-test it.
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Materials treasure hunt activity

Materials treasure hunt

Encourage your child to find soft and hard objects around the house and then record what they found.
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Sorting materials: soft and hard activity

Sorting materials: soft and hard

Encourage your child to feel a variety of objects and then sort them according to whether they are soft or hard.
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Sorting toys activity

Sorting toys

An activity involving sorting toys according to a criteria discussed between you and your child.
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Changing materials investigation activity

Changing materials investigation

A practical activity for children to test what happens when they stretch, bend, squash and twist different materials.
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Compare two materials worksheet

Compare two materials

A worksheet to help your child choose two materials, then consider similarities and differences between the two, as well as considering their uses.
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