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Materials Scavenger Hunt
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Materials Scavenger Hunt

Students set off around the classroom or playground in search of examples of each category of material. This worksheet can be done as a competitive scavenger hunt, or a collaborative class activity.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people.
  • We are learning to identify how familiar products, services and environments are designed and produced.
  • We are learning to identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments to meet personal and community needs.
  • We are learning to explore how technologies including materials affect movement in products.
  • We are learning to explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components used to produce designed solutions.
  • We are learning to understand that different materials can be combined for a particular purpose.

Curriculum alignment

AC9TDEFK01 9

Explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people

 AC9S2I02 9 Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions AC9S2I04 9 Sort and order data and information and represent patterns, including with provided tables and visual or physical models AC9S2I03 9 Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate AC9S2I01 9 Pose questions to explore observed simple patterns and relationships and make predictions based on experiences AC9S2H01 9 Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions AC9S2I05 9 Compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance AC9TDE2K02 9

Explore how technologies including materials affect movement in products

 AC9S2I06 9 Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary AC9TDE2K01 9

Identify how familiar products, services and environments are designed and produced by people to meet personal or local community needs and sustainability

 ACSIS040 8.4 Use a range of methods to sort information, including drawings and provided tables and through discussion, compare observations with predictions ACSIS041 8.4 Compare observations with those of others ACSIS042 8.4 Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways ACSIS039 8.4 Use informal measurements to collect and record observations, using digital technologies as appropriate ACSIS038 8.4 Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions ACSIS037 8.4 Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events ACSHE034 8.4 Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events ACSSU031 8.4 Different materials can be combined for a particular purpose ACTDEK004 8.4

Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to produce designed solutions

 ACTDEK001 8.4

Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs
ST1-8PW-S old Describes common forms of energy and explores some characteristics of sound energy ST1-2DP-T old Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity ST1-3DP-T old Describes, follows and represents algorithms to solve problems ST1-6MW-S old Identifies that materials can be changed or combined ST1-11DI-T old Identifies the components of digital systems and explores how data is represented ST1-10ES-S old Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s resources ST1-7MW-T old Describes how the properties of materials determine their use ST1-9PW-ST old Investigates how forces and energy are used in products ST1-4LW-S old Describes observable features of living things and their environments ST1-5LW-T old Identifies how plants and animals are used for food and fibre products ST1-1WS-S old Observes, questions and collects data to communicate and compare ideas STe-2DP-T old Develops solutions to an identified need STe-1WS-S old Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
VCSIS052 Use informal measurements in the collection and recording of observations VCSIS053 Use a range of methods, including drawings and provided tables, to sort information VCSIS051 Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions VCSIS050 Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events VCSIS054 Compare observations and predictions with those of others VCDSTC017 Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to create designed solutions VCSIS055 Represent and communicate observations and ideas about changes in objects and events in a variety of ways VCDSTS013 Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

Differentiation

Modifications

Students who might struggle to write a description of the item they’ve found can draw a picture of it, or even use a tablet or phone to take a picture of the examples they come across.

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