Science

Properties and Changes of Materials

In our Science lessons, we will exploring properties and changes of materials. We will explore the following areas:

- Making comparisons of everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity and response to magnets;

- Recognise that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution and describe how to recover a substance from a solution;

- Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might by separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating;

- Giving reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular use of everyday materials;

- Demonstrating that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible;

- Explaining that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible.