Design a solution to help an extremely rare animal living in our playground.
Understand there is an environmental cost to using some materials.
Describe six types of materials you come across in your daily life.
Understand that different materials have different properties which can work together to solve problems.
Understand that the world is made of materials working together.
This 7-lesson unit covers all the Year 4 Chemical Sciences material for the Australian National Curriculum. Throughout the unit, students co...
Students learn about the impact that materials have on our environment.
In this lesson, students will learn about the people who put all these materials together.
Students will investigate mixed materials and why they are combined.
This lesson will have students will find examples of materials they discussed in the previous lesson.
This unit covers the Chemical Sciences portion of the Australian Curriculum for year 2. Through a series of presentations, hands-on activiti...
Students complete this worksheet after testing their egg drop design and watching others in the class. They sketch their design, and then re...
For this worksheet, students have to weigh the desire to create a sustainable and environmental sound house, while sticking to a budget. The...
While no materials is capable at being good at everything, all materials serve a purpose. The story of the three little pigs shows how impor...
Students rank common materials based on their physical, mechanical, and chemical properties.
Students look closely at a familiar material and assess it’s various properties, including physical, mechanical and economic properties.
Students examine objects around them to figure out what materials go into their construction.
This presentation introduces students to the final activity of the unit, where they will need to design a contraption to keep a fictional en...
This Chemical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 5 of the Material Magic unit written for Year 4. It allows the teache...
This Chemical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 4 of the Material Magic unit written for Year 4. It allows the teache...
This Chemical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 3 of the Material Magic unit written for Year 4. It allows the teache...
This Chemical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 2 of the Material Magic unit written for Year 4. It allows the teache...
This Chemical Sciences presentation has been created to support Lesson 1 of the Material Magic unit written for Year 4. It allows the teache...
Students are asked to reflect on the importance of recycling through either writing or drawing. This worksheet was designed to be used with...
This teacher sheet outline the instructions for a recycling activity where students turn scrap paper into beautiful, handmade paper bookmark...
During this presentation, students explore the environmental impacts that come from material choices, and the importance of choosing materia...
In this presentation, student learn about the different careers that are built around using materials to solve design problems, namely inven...
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