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Year 5: Properties of materials

Properties and Changes of Materials has been split into two lists , which look at properties and changes of materials and changes of state.This list consists of lesson plans and activities to support the teaching of properties and changes of materials in Year Five. It contains tips on using the resources, suggestions for further use and background subject knowledge. Possible misconceptions are highlighted so that teachers may plan lessons to facilitate correct conceptual understanding. Designed to support the new curriculum programme of study it aims to cover many of the requirements for knowledge and understanding and working scientifically. The statutory requirements are that children are taught to:

· compare and group together everyday materials based on evidence from comparative and  fair tests, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

· understand that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution

· use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

·  give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic

· demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes

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Properties and Changes of Materials *suitable for home teaching*

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Activity ideas and worksheets which support the teaching of materials and their properties, good for homework sheets.

The Chemedian: Starting Secondary School

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Introduce dissolving with this colourful comic, which children will love. Carrying out an investigation which looks at the effect of temperature on dissolving will highlight the importance of fair testing. Further investigations look at different factors, such as the speed of stirring and the weight of salt added.

Children often confuse dissolving and melting so it is worth discussing the difference and providing examples of each.

Melting requires heat and dissolving requires a solvent to take place. Further information and activity ideas may be found here .

Growing Crystals

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Children will often describe a solid as 'disappearing' when it dissolves in a solvent such as water, because this is what they observe. This activity is a great way of showing them that salt is still present in the resulting solution and how to recover. Children could use a microscope to observe and draw the shapes of some of the resulting crystals as the water evaporates from the solution and the salt appears.

Although salt or sugar is generally used for this activity, alum (aluminium potassium sulfate) will grow the best crystals and is available from any chemical supplier.

How can we clean our dirty water?

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This resource provides a set of videos and a practical investigation aimed at supporting experimental science in the classroom and relating it to real world experiences.   In the first video Professor Brian Cox joins a teacher to find out how to set up and run an investigation to find out how to turn dirty water into clean water. Provided with a water mixture including stones, sand and salt children are asked to separate it to get pure water using sieves, filters and evaporation. In the next video he then joins the class carrying out their investigation. Further videos show Brian Cox visiting a sewage treatment plant to see how sewage is cleaned by various processes so it can be returned to rivers. He also meets a scientist using chromatography as a separation technique. 

Kitchen Concoctions

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Children can explore a range of mixtures, through fun kitchen science practicals and scenarios. 

Pinch of Salt

Children can explore solutions, evaporation and filtering through the real world applications of salt.

Plastics Playtime

Children can explore the properties of materials, including thermal insulation, through a range of activities linked to plastics.

Runny Liquids

A range of activities linked to Y5 materials, investigating properties of liquids.

Polymers: Physical Testing

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Activities linked to year 5 materials.

Product Design: Polymers in Sleeping Bags

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Product Design: Sports Shoes

Product design: pop bottles, let sleeping bags lie.

Lots of activities to test different properties of materials.

Science Specials Needs Supplement

Lots of real life problems for children to solve involving materials and their properties.

Science of Healthy Skin

Relates to Y5 materials.

Pulp to paper (in forces and recycling)

Children explore materials through making their own recycled paper.

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Primary Science Resources for the National Curriculum

Year 5 properties and changes of materials.

• Outstanding Science Year 5
• Properties And Changes Of Materials

Knowledge and Understanding

Statutory requirements, notes and guidance, upper ks2 - working scientifically, separating solutions investigation free, outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c004.

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• Key learning

Learning objective

I can explain how to recover a substance from a solution.

Children investigate the best place to put a cup of salt solution so that the water evaporates most quickly. They choose 4 locations and measure the amount of water in each container over the course of 7 days. They transfer their results to a line graph and use this to answer the question.

• 5c2 : know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution

Properties of materials Investigation

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c001.

I can group materials according to their properties.

Children investigate the properties of 10 different materials. They predict and then investigate whether the materials are electrical conductors, transparent, strong thermal conductors or magnetic. They record their results in a table, and then complete a Venn diagram containing 2 intersecting sets, choosing 2 properties by which to group the materials.

• 5c1 : compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets

Soluble materials Investigation

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c002.

I can investigate which materials are soluble in water.

Children investigate whether sand, sugar, salt, flour or iron filings will dissolve in water. They record their results in a table and then display them in a single-set Venn diagram. They consider how they could separate the mixtures and solutions.

Investigating hardness Investigation

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c003.

I can investigate the hardness of materials and place them in order of hardness.

Children investigate whether 5 different materials can be scratched by 4 different objects of increasing hardness. They use their results to place the materials in order of hardness.

Separating mixtures Investigation

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c005.

I can suggest ways in which different mixtures can be separated.

Children consider 6 different mixtures / solutions and discuss the best way to separate each. They attempt to separate them using their chosen method. They discuss whether their method worked and why.

• 5c3 : use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating

Uses of materials Worksheet

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c006.

I can explain why materials are used for different purposes.

Children identify the materials that 4 different objects are made from and explain why they have been chosen with reference to their physical properties. Next, they describe the physical properties and uses of 6 different materials - metals, plastics, wood, fabrics, glass and leather. They cut and paste or write their own descriptions.

• 5c4 : give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic

New materials Worksheet

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c007.

I can explain the advantages of new materials and how they were created.

Children learn about the origins of Post-It Notes, wrinkle-free cotton, polar fleece and Gore-Tex. They complete an information text, showing when and by whom they were invented, their advantages and disadvantages, and common applications.

Reversible and irreversible changes Worksheet

Outstanding science year 5 | properties and changes of materials | os5c008.

I can identify if a change is easily reversible and how to reverse it.

Children examine 11 different physical changes of materials. They identify whether they can be easily reversed and explain how or why.

• 5c5 : demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
• 5c6 : explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

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Year 5 science Properties and changes of materials - powerpoints, worksheets and planning

Subject: Primary science

Age range: 7-11

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A set of resources for the new science curriculum. It contains: 1a. INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC - LO: To find out what the children already know about materials. WORKSHEET: A sheet for the children to record what they already know and what they would like to find out about materials. 1b. MATERIAL PROPERTIES - LO: To compare and group everyday materials together POWERPOINT: A look at 12 different properties of materials, with examples of the materials with those properties. It can also be printed out for display. WORKSHEET 1: Material properties worksheet

2. DISSOLVING - LO: To know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution POWERPOINT: Explains the meaning of dissolve and gives examples of different materials that can be dissolved.

3. SEPARATING A MIXTURE - LO: To use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated. POWERPOINT: Looks at different mixtures and how they can be separated, including sieving, filtering and evaporating.

4. USES OF EVERYDAY MATERIALS - LO: give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials POWERPOINT: Asks the children to study objects to see what properties different materials have. Asks questions about which properties and materials would be best for making certain objects.

5 & 6. REVERSIBLE AND IRREVERSIBLE OBJECTS - LO: look at dissolving, mixing and changes of state, and reversible and irreversible changes. POWERPOINT: Explains the meaning of reversible and irreversible changes, giving examples of each. Ends with a quiz where the children have to decide what changes have taken place to certain materials.

7. MATERIALS QUIZ: Recap of all the learning objectives. POWERPOINT : A quiz WORKSHEET : Sheet for recording quiz answers WORKSHEET : Sheet for recording what they have learnt

OTHER RESOURCES A-Z lettering, with a picture background A4 Properties and changes of materials title Materials banner/lettering to cut out Materials topic booklet front cover - with space for children to draw their own design. Vocabulary PowerPoint - can be used as a show and printed out for display. Photo cards - 12 objects made from different materials Investigation and recording sheets - A folder of blank tables, graphs and planning and recording sheets Year 5 Materials medium term planning: An outline of the activities and learning objectives with websites and ideas. It can be added to and amended for your own use.

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This companion project teaches children about the wider properties of materials and their uses. They learn about the reversible mixing of materials, including the process of dissolving, and how mixtures can be separated. Irreversible changes, such as burning and rusting, are also observed.

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Children can use this worksheet to guide them through an investigation into which materials conduct electricity and/or are attracted to magnets. It encourages them to make predictions as well as to record and analyse their results.

• Key Stage: Key Stage 2
• Subject: Science
• Topic: Properties and Changes
• Topic Group: Properties of Materials
• Year(s): Year 5
• Media Type: PDF
• Resource Type: Worksheet
• Last Updated: 25/10/2023
• Resource Code: S2WAT186

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