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Types of Materials
3 4 Pre & Primary Essentials Worksheets STEAM Science Statistics (Data) Chemical Sciences Language for Expressing & Developing Ideas Technologies 1 Page

Types of Materials

Students rank common materials based on their physical, mechanical, and chemical properties.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to build new vocabulary from a range of sources including technical and subject specific language, such as synonyms and antonyms.
  • We are learning to build new vocabulary from a range of sources including technical and subject specific language.
  • We are learning to collect, interpret and discuss data using digital tools, e.g. tally charts, digital tables, graphing or spreadsheets; represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays.
  • We are learning to construct data displays from given or collected data, including tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values.
  • We are learning to examine design and technologies that impact the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs.
  • We are learning to recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore how sustainability impacts product, service and environment design to meet community needs.
  • We are learning to describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system.
  • We are learning to investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system.
  • We are learning to explore needs or opportunities for designing and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions.
  • We are learning to investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes.
  • We are learning to understand that natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties that can influence how they are used, e.g. metal and plastic waste can lead to pollution.

Curriculum alignment

AC9S4H02 9 Consider how people use scientific explanations to meet a need or solve a problem AC9E4LA11 9 Expand vocabulary by exploring a range of synonyms and antonyms, and using words encountered in a range of sources AC9M4ST01 9 Acquire data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose using digital tools; represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays or visualisations; interpret and discuss the information that has been created AC9S4I06 9 Write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate AC9S4I01 9 Pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations AC9TDE4K02 9

Describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system

 AC9TDE4K01 9

Examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs

 AC9S4H01 9 Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations AC9S4U04 9 Examine the properties of natural and made materials including fibres, metals, glass and plastics and consider how these properties influence their use AC9TDE4P01 9

Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions

 ACSSU074 8.4 Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties that can influence their use ACTDEK010 8.4

Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs

 ACSHE061 8.4 Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships ACTDEK013 8.4

Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes

 ACELA1498 8.4 Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research ACMSP096 8.4 Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values ACSHE062 8.4 Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions ACTDEK011 8.4

Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system

 ACSIS064 8.4 With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and make predictions based on prior knowledge ACSIS071 8.4 Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings using formal and informal representations
MA2-3WM old Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used ST2-6MW-S old Describes how adding or removing heat causes a change of state ST2-7MW-T old Investigates the suitability of natural and processed materials for a range of purposes ST2-2DP-T old Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity ST2-1WS-S old Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations ST2-4LW-S old Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things ST2-5LW-T old Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter ST2-10ES-S old Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface MA2-18SP old Selects appropriate methods to collect data, and constructs, compares, interprets and evaluates data displays, including tables, picture graphs and column graphs MA2-2WM old Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems MA2-1WM old Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas EN2-9B old Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts MA2-DATA-02 new Iinterprets data in tables, dot plots and column graphs EN2-OLC-01 new Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting EN2-VOCAB-01 new Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words EN2-RECOM-01 new Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension MA2-DATA-01 new Collects discrete data and constructs graphs using a given scale
VCDSTC024 Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution VCELA293 Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources, including vocabulary encountered in research, into own texts VCMSP179 Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values VCSIS072 Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings to show patterns and relationships using formal and informal scientific language VCSIS065 With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge VCDSTC027 Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes VCSSU056 Science knowledge helps people to understand the effects of their actions VCDSTS023 Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability, that impact on the design of solutions to meet community needs VCSSU060 Natural and processed materials have a range of physical propertiesΝΎ these properties can influence their use

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

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