This document provides instructions for a student activity to learn about different materials. The activity includes observing objects and identifying their materials, reading articles and crosswords about materials, watching an educational video, writing paragraphs describing materials, and completing a word search. Students are asked to complete 10 different tasks or activities exploring materials. Their work will be evaluated on a point scale to assess their understanding of what various objects are made from.

2. INTRO
TASK
PROCESS
EVALUATION

3. What materials are different
objects made from?
What is the study of materials in
Science? You could call it the study of
stuff! Just about everything you use
every day - the shoes you wear, the
dishes you eat from, the CDs you
listen to, the bike or skateboard you
ride - it's all made of different kinds
of stuff.
Understanding how that stuff is put
together, how it can be used, how it
can be changed and made better to
do more amazing things, even
creating completely new kinds of
stuff: that's what this unit is about.

4. The teacher needs your help! You’re a
detective…
In this unit “GROUPING AND CLASSIFYING
MATERIALS” you’ll learn about many things you
use every day! You’ll need a little notebook to
take notes and a pen… Elementary! Like Sherlock
Holmes said.
Explore materials with these fun activities!

5. Activities:
1.- Answer the question that you’d find in the introduction.
2.- You have to observe 6 objects and write the name of the
material. If you have doubts ask someone else. Write the
answers in your notebook then draw another object of the same
material
3.- Read the article that you will find in this page
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/metals.html . Ask
your parents, friends or neighbors to list at least 10 materials
that they know.
4.- Solve this crossword online
http://www.englishmedialab.com/crosswords/what's%20it%20
made%20of/index.html
5.- Print this exercise and fill in the gaps. http://www.esl-
galaxy.com/vocabsheets/What%20are%20they%20made%20of.
pdf

6. 6.- Watch this video (write comments)
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/experiments/egginabottle.html
7.- Choose any object to write a paragraph about the correspondent material
and print it. You may add more information or images. Look at this sample:
Text Pattern
This _____________ is made of ______________.
Many things are made of ____________________.
For example: _______________, __________________and
__________________.
Use one of the materials below:
Glass / plastic/ wood /metal / paper / wool

7. 8.- What’s it made of? Online Wordsearch
http://www.englishmedialab.com/wordsearch/what's%20it%20
made%20ofws/index.html
9.- What is your favorite material? Why? (notebook)
10.- What did you learn? (print)

8. Find out what are the following objects made of…

9. Activity 1= 1 point Activity 6 = 1 points
Activity 2= 6 points Activity 7 = 6 points
Activity 3 = 10 points Activity 9 = 1 point
Activity 5 = 15 points Activity 10= 10 points
EXCELLENT VERY GOOD GOOD NEEDS INSUFICIENT
IMPROVEMENT
40 to 50 31 to 40 21 to 30 11 to 20 10
Points
You’re a great You might be Almost there… You can do it Try harder!
detective! Watson… better!