USES OF MATERIALS

Year 3

Learning Objectives

Know that every material has specific

properties like hard, soft and shiny.
Discuss why materials are chosen for
specific purposes on the basis of their
properties.

Today, we will be having fun doing :

Silly and Sensible Game

Name 7 objects and suggest a silly
material for that object and say why it is
silly, and a sensible materials and say
why it is sensible.

The everyday objects, its materials and its uses

Object

Material

Why it is used

Frying pan

metal iron

Because metal can stand

heat and it is waterproof

Coin

Nickel, iron and

copper

It will not rust

Necklace

Gold

It is shiny

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Silly Material

Sensible
Material

Biscuit. It is silly as it is not seethrough and the ants will come

and eat the window

Glass. It is
sensible
because it is
transparent.

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