Primary Lessons and Resources

Properties of materials

Unlock young learners’ curiosity with our engaging primary lessons and resources all about materials! From exploring everyday natural materials like wood and stone to understanding human-made materials such as plastic and glass, children will dive into the fascinating world of what things are made of. Our fun and interactive content helps children learn how to group materials based on their properties—like hardness, flexibility, or transparency. Perfect for classrooms or at-home learning!

What you’ll find

READY-TO-USE RESOURCES AND LESSON PLANS

Expertly crafted lesson plans and ideas covering properties of materials. Quick Teach provides everything you need for this popular primary science topic, including materials, natural materials, human-made materials and grouping materials.

ACCESS PRIOR AND NEXT LEARNING STEPS

Unlike other resource platforms, Quick Teach allows you to see each lesson plan’s prior and subsequent steps to build a robust series of lessons that help children progress, regardless of their knowledge of the topic or starting points.

BEST-QUALITY RESOURCES

Explore investigations, narrated videos, picture cards, knowledge organisers (available on Maestro), information sheets and much more to help you teach children about properties of materials.

Our Properties of materials lessons & resources cover:

Year 1

Year 2

KS1

Age 5–6

Age 6–7

Investigations

Presentations

Picture Cards

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