Materials
Audience: KS1 Science
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Materials scavenger hunt
- Making and testing feely bags
- Ephemeral artwork using natural materials
- Investigating outdoor clothing for different weather conditions
- Exploring the properties of natural materials and how they may change
over time
- Making connections between natural materials and manufactured objects
- Unnatural object trial
- Construction of animal homes using appropriate materials
- 3D constructions using natural habitats.
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Improve observation and discrimination skills
- Increase their knowledge of the properties and uses of natural materials
- Learn about manufacturing processes
- Understand how clothing can assist the heating or cooling of the
body
- Learn about the life and decay cycle
- Have experience of building structures co-operatively
- Understand how the plant materials we need can be grown sustainably
- Appreciate the skills of animal builders
- Experience making a 3D object from raw materials
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