Material hunt!

This week, the children have started their new Science topic all about....... materials. We thought about what materials are and where we can find them. The children had fantastic ideas about naturally occurring materials and those made in factories. The children enjoyed some "Learning outside the classroom" and went on a materials hunt around the school grounds. They started to consider why certain materials are used for certain jobs and described their different properties using excellent scientific vocabulary. We talked about why some materials would be hopeless for certain purposes. For example, you would not want a raincoat made out of paper or a window pane made from wood!

Take a look at us in action on our material hunt: