Preschool • Science & Discovery
Exploring Materials
Explore how familiar materials feel and behave through five visual sorting, matching, and choice activities.
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Meet Material Properties
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Hard or Soft?
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Rough or Smooth?
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What Can It Do?
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Choose the Best Material
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Learning focus
- Describe and compare familiar materials using properties such as hard, soft, rough, smooth, bendy, stretchy, and stiff.
Resource details
- Grade
- Preschool
- Subject
- Science & Discovery
- Topic
- Exploring Materials
- Skills
- Material Properties
- Pages
- 5
For adults
If safe household examples are available, let your child touch or gently test them before completing the picture activity. Ask for a describing word such as rough, smooth, bendy, stretchy, hard, or soft.