Encourage discussion and promote scientific thinking with these Year 5 Properties and Changes of Materials Concept Cartoons. They feature a range of common misconceptions that can be unpicked as pupils explain their viewpoints. Encourage children to use evidence to justify their ideas. This will reveal any gaps in their understanding so that you can target them quickly. 

This resource features two statements: 'Changes of state can always be reversed' and 'When something dissolves, it disappears for good'.

Concept cartoons are flexible in their use, meaning they could be used at the beginning or end of a topic. They are also ideal for display - ensuring a knowledge rich environment to further young minds.

Download them now to find out what your budding scientists know!

Year 5 National Curriculum link/objective:

• explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

• know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution

• demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes