This document is a chapter from a 5th grade science textbook on materials and waste minimization. It includes learning objectives about identifying characteristics that make materials useful or harmful, and segregating waste by properties. The chapter explores properties of common household materials like wood, plastic, glass and how these properties determine their uses. Students are asked to identify, group and analyze samples of different materials to understand how the materials' properties relate to their functions and applications.

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QUARTER CHAPTER 1 : HOW ARE PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS USE TO MINIMIZE
WASTE?
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Learning Competencies 1. ELICIT 2. ENGAGE 3. EXPLORE
4. EXPLAIN 5.
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Content Standards
The learners demonstrate understanding
of properties of materials to determine
whether they are useful or harmful
Learning Competency
The learners should be able to use
properties of materials whether they are
useful or harmful
S5MT-1a-b-1
Performance Standards
The learners should be able to use local,
recyclable solid and/or liquid materials in
making useful products
Objectives
1. Identify the different characteristics of
materials that make it useful and harmful.
2.Learn how to segregate waste based
on its properties
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WASTE?
LESSON NO: 1
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WASTE?
ELICIT
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ELICIT
What is
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WASTE?
matter have
materials for
properties that make them
producing useful products.
good
Other
types have properties that make them harmful.
Sometimes, matter also undergoes changes
that affect their properties.
ENGAGE
Everything around us is matter – the soil,
water, and air.
Matter has different properties that make
them different from one another. Some types of
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EXPLORE
Directions: Get three items inside your bag and three
more items inside the classroom. Identify each item that
you found and answer the following questions.
1. What is the item made of?
2. Are these materials safe or harmful? Why?
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EXPLORE
Let us find out what are the
different materials around us.
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We use different materials for cleaning, cooking,
eating, and repairing. The usefulness of a certain material
depends on its properties. These are materials that are
durable and therefore can be reused many times. Though
there are some that are not meant to be reused. Creative
and inventive people still find other ways to use them.
There are also materials that are made for certain
purposes only and can be harmful when not used or
disposed properly.
In order to minimize waste in our own household, we
have to know which materials are still useful and which are
ones should already be disposed.
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EXPLAIN
Directions: Group yourselves into six and go around the classroom. In the
chart below, list down five materials that can you find. Write down each
material its usefulness and harmfulness in the proper column in the table
below.
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Product Usefulness Harmfulness
1.
2.
3.
4.
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When is a material useful?
EXPLAIN
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ELABORATE
Look at the pictures
of materials that are
used at home. Can
you identify them?

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ELABORATE
Directions: What kind of materials are used at home? List your answers in
the table below.
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What Materials Are Made of: Names of Household Materials
1. Wood
2. Plastic
3. Metal
4. Rubber
5. Ceramics
6. Glass

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ELABORATE
Let us see the different
properties of materials
around us.
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ELABORATE
Answer these questions.
1. Why is wood used to make tables and chairs?
2. Why is plastic used to make containers and bags?
3. Why is glass used to make windows, bulbs, and
bottles?
4. Why is metal used to make pans and pots?
5. Why is ceramic used to make mugs, vases, and
cups?
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ELABORATE
WHAT YOU NEED: metal ruler, plastic bottle, rags, metal spoon, drinking
glass, flashlight, rubber band, eye glasses, rubber slippers, raincoat,
wooden ladle, magnetic lock
WHAT TO DO:
1. Gather all the products you have on your table.
2. Group the products based on the materials they are made of and name
them.
3. Analyze the properties of the materials used in each group of product
and determine the uses of these materials in daily life.
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ELABORATE
WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND OUT:
1. How many groups were you able to come up with? Specify the
groups.
2. What are the most common material among the product/s? Specify.
CONCLUSION: How do the properties of matter determine the use of the
materials?
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EVALUATE
Directions: Identify the property of the material that is used in producing
useful and valuable products. Write your answer on the blank.
1. Copper is used in electrical connections at home.
2. The water tank is made of stainless steel.
3. A black sweater is made of cotton fabric.
4. Window panes are made of glass.
5. Doors are made of wood.
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about it.
examples
List down
of materials
found at home where you
can find the same symbol.
EXTEND
Copy the picture on your
notebook. Ask your family
member/s to tell something
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