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Naming Everyday Materials

Identify and name a variety of everyday materials including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock

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What a learner can do afterwards

  • Name at least six everyday materials: wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, rock
  • Identify the material of at least ten different objects around the home or classroom
  • Recognise that some objects are made from more than one material

The lesson

You know that objects are different from materials. Now let's learn six material names. Wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.

WoodPlasticGlassMetalWaterRock
These are the six materials we will name.
Try it together

A window is made of glass. Light passes through glass, so you can see outside.

Try it together

A pencil is not just wood. Its eraser band is metal. Two materials make one pencil.

Good to know

Look and touch to guess a material. Metal feels cold. Wood feels a little rough. Glass is easy to see through.

Six materials: wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, rock. Some objects mix two materials together.

Watch it

Where it sits

Where this leads

Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.

Then practise

8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.

Naming Everyday Materials · Science, ages 5 to 6 · LightMySky