Year 1 Everyday materials worksheet

“Objects and what they are made from” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 science unit “Everyday materials”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 28 to 36 of the year, 9 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Objects and what they are made from

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Science · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can name everyday objects and the materials they are made from.

A Look back3 min

1.
Ola made a tally of summer weather. How many sunny days were there?
2.
Mia made a tally of insects in summer. How many bees did she see?
3.
Summer has 16 hours of daylight. Winter has 8. How many more hours does summer have?

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ben is making toast. He picks up his spoon and looks at it closely.

Watch me

A wooden spoon lying on a kitchen worktop

A spoon is an object. You can touch it, and it is not alive.

The spoon is made from wood. Wood is its material.

So the object is a spoon, and the material is wood.

Now you

1.
A key is an object. Circle the material it is made from.
MetalWoodFabric

C Your turn8 min

Read each question, then answer. The table picture shows the things you sort at the end.

A kitchen table with a wooden ruler, a plastic beaker, a metal spoon and a wooden block

1.
Join each object to the material it is made from.
a plastic toy ducka metal keya windowa wooden chair
WoodGlassPlasticMetal
2.
Tom tallies the materials in his box. Which material is in the most objects? Circle it.
WoodPlasticMetal
3.
Tom tallies a different box. Which material is in the fewest objects? Circle it.
GlassWoodMetal
4.
Write each object in the right column.
a wooden rulera plastic beakera metal spoona wooden block
Wood Plastic Metal

Say it out loud: Did you name the object first, or the material?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A wooden chair standing against a plain wall

Mia says: “A chair is a material, because it is made of wood.”

1.
Is Mia right? Write one sentence to explain.

E Think deeper4 min

Look at the garden trowel in the picture. It has two parts.

A garden trowel with a shiny blade and a wooden handle

1.
Name both materials in the trowel. Say which part is made from each one.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Objects and what they are made from · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 7

2. 3

3. 8 If your child writes 24, they added. Ask how many more marks the summer row has.

B

1. Metal If your child circles Wood, ask them to hold a key and say whether it feels hard and cold. Keys are metal.

C

1. a plastic toy duck → Plastic; a metal key → Metal; a window → Glass; a wooden chair → Wood If your child joins the duck to Wood, ask them to squeeze the duck. Plastic bends and is light, so it is not wood.

2. Plastic If your child circles Wood, ask them to count the tally marks in each row again. Plastic has the longest row.

3. Wood If your child circles Glass, ask them which row is shortest. Fewest means the row with the fewest marks.

4. Wood: a wooden ruler, a wooden block · Metal: a metal spoon · Plastic: a plastic beaker If your child puts the ruler under Plastic, ask what the ruler is made from, then point to the word that matches.

D

1. Look for: says the chair is an object and wood is the material it is made from, so Mia is wrong If your child agrees with Mia, ask which word names the thing you can touch and which word names what it is made from.

E

1. Look for: names metal and wood, and says the blade is metal and the handle is wood

Words to use

Say“Which thing is it, and what is it made from? How do you know?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away.”

After the sheet

Go on a materials hunt round one room. Sort what you find into piles of wood, plastic, metal and glass.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

8 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Sorting for recycling(with a plan)
Reduce, reuse, recycle(with a plan)
Describing materials(with a plan)
Special clothes, special jobs(with a plan)
Waterproof Test Time(with a plan)
Reading waterproof results(with a plan)
Light through or blocked?(with a plan)
See-through or not?(with a plan)

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