In this unit children will have opportunities to use:
- names of materials eg metal, plastic, wood, paper, glass, clay, rock, fabric, sand
- words used to describe materials eg hard, soft, rough, smooth, shiny, dull, magnetic, transparent, bendy, waterproof, strong
- words and phrases for making comparisons eg the same as, different from, harder, smoother
- words which may have different meanings in a non-science context eg group, material
- expressions giving reasons using 'because'.
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