What’s included in the Year 2 Uses of Everyday Materials 5-Minute Science resource and why is it useful?

Year 2 Uses of Everyday Materials 5-Minute Science is a set of three revision worksheets covering the whole topic of uses of everyday materials. These have been designed to give your children up to three opportunities to engage in deliberate practice outside of the teaching of the topic. This resource covers comparing the suitability of everyday materials such as wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses, sorting materials into natural and man-made, and how the shapes of solid objects can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching.

How do our 5 Minute Science resources work?

As these resources are designed for re-cap and revision, you could use 5 Minute Science resources during the topic for early morning work, towards the end of the topic or even later in the year as a re-cap. The content across the three worksheets covers the national curriculum objectives for uses of everyday materials year 2 science.

Each unit in the science curriculum has been covered in the 5 Minute Science range.