All Materials articles – Page 6
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Class experimentColourful chemistry
Get colourful with chemistry with these experiments, perfect for learners to explore density and liquids
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ResourceWhite powder mix-up at the factory
Learners create their own chemical investigative company, and solve the mystery of the white powder mix-up. Includes kit list, and safety instructions.
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ResourceTeflon: kitchen science podcasts
Introduce your students to Teflon and the properties of materials with this short podcast.
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ResourceMagnets: primary science podcasts
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to magnets.
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ResourceChemistry in sport: primary science podcasts
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to how the properties of a material can make them suitable for a particular use.
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ResourceSustainable cars: primary science podcasts
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to fossil fuels and renewable fuels.
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ResourceSmart materials in nappies: primary science podcasts
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to absorbancy and comparing materials on the basis of their properties.
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ResourceThe properties of materials and their everyday uses: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘properties of materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how the properties of materials affects their suitability for different uses.
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ResourceSolids, Liquids and Gases
Cartoon animations that explain in simple terms why different materials have different properties and how they change on heating and cooling. Other animations cover separating solids from liquids and show what happens to a solid when it dissolves in a liquid. Courtesy of the ABPI.
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ResourceSeparating mixtures: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘separating mixtures’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how sieving can separate particles of different sizes and other methods used for separating mixtures.
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ResourcePlastics challenge
Links to Practical Action’s plastics challenge, where students develop products from recycled objects, as a possible way of tackling environmental problems caused by plastic waste.
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ResourceThermochromic materials
A hidden use of chemistry in everyday life includes thermochromic materials that change colour when exposed to heat or cold
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ResourceInsulation and conduction: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘Insulation and conduction’ chapter from That’s Chemistry!: This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how materials have different properties, including whether they are conductors or insulators of heat and/or electricity.
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ResourceFloating garden challenge
Design and build a model structure with Practical Action’s floating garden challenge
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ResourceGrouping and classifying materials: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘grouping and classifying materials’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at the key ideas and activities that can be used to teach primary students how to group and classify materials.
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ResourceCracking Chemistry!
Work your way through these fun chemistry practicals developed by National Science & Engineering Week.
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ResourceBeat the flood challenge
Links to Practical Action’s beat the flood challenge, including the teacher and student materials, beat the flood poster, competition winners and schools’ experiences of the challenge. Video: Beat the flood
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ResourceHand warmers
Use these student activities and teacher guide to investigate reusable and disposable hand warmers. You will compare reusable variants made with sodium acetate vs disposable handwarmers. You can also try making your own hand warmers. These activities may work well as a project on class topics like ‘winter’ or ‘body ...
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ResourceWood conservation - the Mary Rose
The Mary Rose is a wooden Tudor warship that sank off Portsmouth in 1545. While on the sea bed, most of her hull became covered in silt, which effectively sealed it and the artefacts it contained in anaerobic (air-free) conditions and preserved them from decay.