TeacherGuidanceMaterials.doc

‘The Earth’s materials – Are we wasting them?’ – a resource for Key Stage 2 Overview This resource is split into several areas: Introduction Revising materials and their properties Recycling The recycle bin Thinking skill activities. Many of the areas have one or more powerpoints (ppt) that form the focus of the work with accompanying worksheets and whiteboard files where appropriate to extend discussion or thinking on a topic. The final section contains a number of thinking skill activities based on the work covered before. This work covers: Interdependence of organisms – how humans affect the local environment The sustainable Earth a comparison of the features and properties of some natural and made materials the properties of materials relating to their uses how some materials are formed or produced a consideration of what waste is and what happens to local waste that can be recycled and that which cannot be recycled. N.B. Some ppt files may ask you to ‘enable macros’ in order to use extra functionality in the file you are opening. If you cannot select this option, you will need to change your Internet security settings to ‘medium’ (Tools-Internet Options – Security). Introduction What do you know about our Earth? The ppt and worksheet can be used at the beginning of the topic to encourage children to think about the materials they may find on the Earth and to consider whether we have an exhaustible supply. Why is it important to know about material properties?Whose responsibility is it to act sustainably? Revising materials and their properties Material properties The ‘Using Materials Intro’ ppt introduces some property keywords that children can use to describe the materials presented. Following an onscreen exercise, pupils are asked to consider which material they think is the most important and ‘diamond ranking’ files are available for them to present their information to the rest of the class. There is no right answer to this question but it will provi