St William of York Catholic Primary School
Uses of everyday materials
Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses.
Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
Key vocabulary
opaque, transparent and translucent, reflective, non-reflective, flexible, rigid, shape, push/pushing, pull/puling, twist/twisting, squash/squashing, bend/bending, stretch/stretching