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You can already tell an object from the material it is made from. Today we collect the names of six everyday materials.
One of these words is a material name. Which one?
Naming Everyday Materials
Identify and name a variety of everyday materials including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
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
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You know that objects are different from materials. Learn six material names, and you can walk around your home and name what almost everything is made of. Wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.
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.
You can often work out a material by looking at it and touching it. Metal feels cold and hard. Wood feels a little rough. Glass is easy to see through. Rock feels heavy and hard, and plastic feels light and smooth.
Materials come from somewhere. Wood comes from trees. Rock comes from the ground. Plastic is made by people in factories. Water falls from the sky as rain. When you name a material, you can often say where it came from too.
Six materials: wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, rock. Some objects mix two materials together.
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Where it sits
Learn first
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
Then practise
24 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.