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Materials and Their Properties practice for Reception – Year 5

Science · Materials · Early Years (EYFS), Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2. What things are made of and how materials change.

What your child will learn

• Predict and explain whether objects float or sink.
• Distinguish objects from the materials they are made of.
• Tell an object from its material and name wood, plastic, glass, metal, water and rock.
• Describe simple physical properties of everyday materials and group materials by those properties.
• Identify and compare the suitability of wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses.
• Find out how the shapes of solid objects can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

Try some free materials and their properties questions

These are real BrightWorld questions. In the app, every question adapts to your child’s level and comes with hints and worked examples.

How BrightWorld helps with materials and their properties

Children practise materials and their properties at Easy, Medium or Hard, in mixed quizzes, in the Answer Run game and inside story missions. If they get stuck, they get a hint and a worked example; if they’re flying, the questions get harder. Parents see how they’re doing in the parent area.

Related topics

Solids, Liquids and Gases