Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

It's so nice to see you and to meet virtually lots of different children all across the country.

My name is Ms. Emms, and I'm really excited to be here because I am looking forward to teaching you this unit of science all about materials.

And this is our first lesson in that unit.

So I'm really excited that you're going to be doing some science learning with me, Ms. Emms. I wonder if you've done any of my science learning before.

When was your first time? Can you tell your screen? Okay, either way, I hope you're feeling excited.

We are going to be learning all about materials.

Let's get started straight away so you can see what we're going to do.

Okay, so our key question today is which material should I use.

So we're going to be thinking about how you choose certain materials and the properties that they have.

Let's have a look first at our lesson agenda.

And that means that this is the format that we're going to follow for our science lesson today.

We're going to start off with some star words.

Those are really important words that we're going to use in this lesson.

Then we're going to move on to thinking about the difference between an object and a material.

After that, we're going to think about materials and their properties, which is an important word that I'm going to tell you about very soon.

Then we're going to think about uses of materials for different objects.

And then we are going to complete an end-of-lesson quiz.

So let's get started.

You're going to need few things in this lesson.

You are going to need an exercise book or some paper, and it can be lined or it can be blank.

It doesn't really matter so much for science.

It can be either.

You can have a piece of paper or an exercise book.

You are going to need a pencil or a pen.

It's great if you've got a pencil.

If you haven't got a pencil, then you can use a pen.

And you are going to need your science brain switched on up to maximum, ready to do lots and lots of great learning.

So if you need to pause the video to go and get any of these things, or any of these things for today's lesson, then I'm going to ask you to do that in a minute.

Just listen carefully so you know all the things that you need to have to go and get.

You've got your brain inside your head already.

You don't need to go and get that.

If in your home, and don't worry if you haven't, but if you've got something wooden, maybe it's going to be a wooden table.

In which case, you can't carry it to your computer, but you can go and feel the table at some stage in the lesson, and a cloth or a piece of fabric, then can you pause the video and go and get those things now? So just a reminder: paper, pencil, got your brain, and something wooden and cloth also.

Press pause on the video now to go and get those things.

Okay, you are back, and you are ready for some learning.

So let's begin.

The first thing we're going to do, and this is one of my favourite parts of our science lessons, is we go through the star words.

I'm going to say this.

Star words, star words, star words! And can you do that back to your screen? Are you ready? Star words, star words, star words! Object.

Say it again.

If I point to you like this, it's your turn to say it, okay? Object.

An object is like a thing, okay? So this glass here is an object.

This highlighter here is an object.

We are going to think about the materials, your turn, that certain objects are made of.

Say the materials again, nice and fast.

Materials.

Well done.

So we are going to learn about this in this lesson, but this object is a glass, a water glass, and the material that it's made of is glass.

Property.

Property.

Properties, they're things that we can.

For example, if we say this glass, it's strong.

It's transparent.

I can see through it.

Words that I can use to describe the object, to describe the material, are called properties.

So today we're going to think about the properties of certain materials.

And lastly, purpose, purpose.

Purpose means its use, what's it for.

So what's the purpose of my water glass.

The purpose of my water glass is to hold water so that I can have a drink.

Purpose.

Fantastic.

Wow, you are very good at star words.

Well done.

Okay.

Let's move on.

So we're going to think now about objects and materials and the difference between those two words.

You can see here on your scree a picture of a bottle.

Now, the object is the bottle, okay? The object is the bottle.

It is made from plastic.

So plastic is the material.

Plastic is the? So I'm going to say the sentence, and I want you to look carefully.

You can see it at the bottom of the screen.

The object is a bottle.

The material is plastic.

The bottle is made from plastic.

I'm going to do it one more time.

Can you join in with me this time? The object is a bottle.

The material is plastic.

The bottle is made from plastic.

What's the object here? Tell your screen You are right.

The bottle.

And what material is the object made from? Tell your screen.

You're right, plastic.

Well done.

Everybody.

Let's move on to another object.

Okay, so here, I'm not going to tell you.

It's your turn to tell your screen.

I would like you to first of all have a look at the picture.

We're not thinking about these parts here.

I'm thinking about this part here and here.

And I want you to fill in the blanks verbally to your screen.

So you're going to say, "The object is a mm.

The material is mm." Okay just start off with that sentence, off you go.

The? Fantastic.

The object is a window.

The material is glass.

Did you get it? And then you're going to say, "The window is made from glass." Your turn.

Great, you're getting the hang of this.

Well done.

So let's have a look at this picture.

I don't want you to think about the coffee cup here.

I want you to think about what it's sitting on, which is, well you're going to tell me which object it is.

And this time I wonder if you can say both sentences.

So let me tell you what you're going to say.

Say mm for the blanks.

The object is a mm.

The material is mm.

The mm is made from mm.

Ms. Emms sounds a bit silly saying all those mms. But you're going to replace those mms with either the objects or the material.

Off you go.

Say it to me, say it to your screen.

Goodness me, you are a very good scientist.

Well done.

The object is a table.

The material is, what was the material? Wood.

Don't worry if you didn't get it, but well done if you did.

And the table, therefore, is made from wood.

So the object is a? The material is? Let me try and trick you.

The material is? The objects is? Goodness me.

The material is wood.

And the object is the table.

Well done.

So I want you, just as a quick recap task, and you'll probably know how to do this now, which is great, I'd like you to have a think about the difference between an object and a material.

Maybe you can use an example.

Can you pause the video now, and you can either tell your screen.

Sometimes what some of the children in my class like to do, is they at home have been enjoying telling that teddies as if they're teaching their own teddies.

You don't have to do that.

If you've got a teddy friend that you would like to teach, like a teacher when you're teaching science.

You can get your teddy and tell your teddy as your teddy talk partner.

Or you can just tell your screen.

You might prefer to do that.

So what is the difference between an object and a material? You're going to say an object is mm, a material is mm.

Pause the video now and tell your screen.

Off you go.

Great, well done.

So the object is like the thing, the item, and the material is what it's made of.

Did you get that? Well done.

Okay, let's keep going.

You're doing a very good job.

So before you have a look at some materials that I've got in front of me, I wonder, can you think of some materials in your home? Let me give you one idea.

I am sitting at a table that's made of wood.

So a material that I can see straight away in my home around me is wood.

Hmm, I want you to pause the video in a minute, and you're going to have a look.

You don't need to get up.

You can if you'd like to.

And you're going to have a look and see how many different materials you can see around you.

You don't have to write them down.

You can tell your screen, or you can just put them in your brain.

You can think of them.

Pause the video now and do that.

Well done.

I wonder what you found.

I wonder if any of you are sitting at a plastic table or a wooden table.

I wonder if any of you have been drinking out of a glass water glass.

I wonder if any of you are thinking about the fabric of your sofa or the glass of your windows, like you can see behind me.

Okay, fantastic.

Let's move on.

So we're now going to think about properties.

Can you say the key word? We're going to do it in a quiet voice first.

Properties.

Whisper it.

Shout it.

Properties! Say it in a medium voice.

Properties.

Well done.

So properties.

We're going to think about six properties.

There are three pairs that sort of are opposites of each other.

So you probably have heard of, you've definitely have heard of these words before, but you might not have learnt about them as properties.

Some materials are soft, but some materials are hard.

Can you think of a soft material? Tell your screen.

Mm, great ideas.

This jumper is made of a very soft material.

Can you think of a hard material? Tell your screen.

Mm, this table, if I knock on it, it's quite hard.

The wood is hard.

Great job, everyone.

So we've got soft and hard.

We've got.

Well done.

Our next pair of properties are, my turn, your turn, absorbent, waterproof, Let's do it again, and then I'll tell you the definitions.

Absorbent.

Waterproof.

Absorbent means the material is able to soak up liquid.

For example, if I use my cloth, it's going to be absorbent.

It will soak up the liquid.

If a material is waterproof, it's not going to soak up the liquid.

It's going to repel it.

It doesn't let water get in.

You wouldn't want to wear an absorbent coat, would you? You can see here the raindrops falling, but they're not going to be soaked up by the coat.

They won't go through.

They're going to be repelled.

They're not going to get inside the coat.

So you've got absorbent.

Your turn, and waterproof.

Your turn.

Quick fire question.

I wonder, can you tell me, can you tell me whether you think this jumper would be waterproof.

Shake for no, nod for yes.

You're right, I don't think this jumper would be waterproof.

You should have.

Your head should have been shaking.

Okay.

This jumper is quite absorbent.

I'd get a bit wet if I went outside, and it was raining, and I was wearing this jumper.

So we've had soft, hard, your turn.

Absorbent, waterproof.

Your turn.

Well done.

Our last pair is transparent and opaque.

You may have heard these words before.

Give me a little nod if you have.

Some, some haven't.

That's fine.

So transparent means you can see through.

Transparent means you can.

Do the action.

Transparent means you can see through.

Transparent means you can.

Great.

Opaque means you can't see through.

Let's do this.

Opaque means you can't see through.

Opaque means you.

Great, I'm going to do the action.

You're going to say transparent or opaque.

Are you ready? Transparent and.

I did it again.

Transparent and opaque.

Transparent means you can see through.

Opaque means you can't see through.

So to recap, everyone, we've had soft and hard.

Absorbent and waterproof, and transparent and opaque.

Now, quick task for you, can you name all of these properties? So we've just gone over the six properties.

These ones are now without their names on the screen.

Can you point to them and name the property? I'll do the first one for you.

If I pause, I point to this one here, and I'd say soft.

Can you pause the video and write? And just with your voice, point to the other properties and name that property.

Pause and off you go.

Did you get them? Should we have a look at the answers? So we had soft.

Your turn.

Point with me and say it.

Soft.

Point your fingers on the screen.

Absorbent.

Transparent.

Hard, waterproof, and opaque.

Or it might make more sense for us to do it like this.

So we're looking at the opposites.

Soft, hard.

Absorbent, waterproof.

Transparent, and opaque.

Remember, absorbent means that it takes in water easily.

Waterproof means it repels water.

Transparent means you can see through.

Opaque means you can't.

And you're going to need to use your knowledge of those properties when we investigate very soon.

So let's have a look at some examples, like a table.

So I'm going to show you the table in a minute.

So, well, I'm going to show you another item, another object that's made of the same material.

But if you have a look at this picture, you can see a wooden table.

So I would like you to write down, and there's a bit more for you to do here.

We're going to write down the next one.

And you're going to say this one.

Sorry, silly Ms. Emms said write down.

I meant say it to your screen as this little icon here tells us.

And I want you to say, "This table is made from mm." And then you're going to say the material mm is and choose two properties.

So it will sound like this when you say the words.

The table is made from mm.

Mm, and that will be the same word you've got there, is mm and mm.

Two properties that go in there.

Can you pause the video now, and can you say that to your screen.

Off you go, I'm listening.

Great.

Well done, scientists.

Amazing.

The table is made from wood.

Wood is, and now you could have had a few options, but you may have had hard.

Now, absorbent or waterproof, it sort of depends.

It's not as waterproof as some other materials, but broadly, wood is quite waterproof.

Okay, so if I was hiding under my table outside, and it was raining, I probably wouldn't get very wet.

And finally, you might have said that it was opaque.

Because I can't see through my table.

I can't see my legs that are underneath my table.

Because wood is opaque.

Well done.

Again, if you need to tick or fix here, team, that means you can pause now.

And if you didn't get hard and opaque, then you can pause the video and you can tick it, or you can fix it if you made a mistake, which we know is completely fine.

Pause if you need to do that now.

Great job.

Well done, everyone.

Now, the fun part.

I wonder if you would like to go around your home, and can you find anything? You don't have to bring it to your computer, but can you see or feel anything in your home that is made from wood? Or maybe can you think about anything outside that is where you'd find some wood? And can you again describe its properties? Pause to do that now.

Great.

Well done, everyone.

I wonder what you found.

I'm looking around.

And even the chair I'm sitting on is made from wood.

And the lamp.

I've got a lamp where the bottom is also made from wood.

It's actually in lots of places if you have a look around our environments.

Okay, and finally, a cloth.

So I'm going to show you for this one.

With clingfilm I showed you.

With the table.

We described the table, or we could have had a look at something like this, which is wood as well.

It's my chopping board.

And now we're moving on to cloth.

So I'm going to first of all go off the slide so you can see.

Hi again.

So here I've got a cloth.

And I use this cloth to clean up my kitchen when I spilled something, or to clean up the table.

And I'm going to feel the cloth, and now to feel for its properties.

Okay, so immediately I can feel that it's quite soft.

I put it to my face as well, but I can feel that it's quite soft.

Should I check to see if it's opaque or transparent? Will you tell me if you can see me, ready? Can you see me? I can't see you.

Let's try again.

Can't see you.

So this is opaque.

Okay, fabric, the fabric that makes the cloth, is opaque because I can't see you if I hold it up, like that.

So we'd say it's soft.

We'd say it's opaque.

And if I were to spill a little bit of water.

I've actually got a little bit of water in this glass.

If I pour that water onto the cloth, it's not coming through and dropping onto the table because the cloth is really absorbent.

Can you pause the video now, and can you go and see if you can ask your parent or your carer if you can just have a little feel of the cloth to check its properties.

Off you go.

Pause now.

Great job, everyone.

Well done.

Let's fill in our sentence.

So you're going to write both of these now.

We said the last one.

You're going to write, "The cloth is made from." It's a bit tricky, but have a go there.

I used a word, the material that you could use there.

And then the material is mm and mm.

If you'll start with the material, you could say the cloth is mm and mm.

Because sometimes we use the word cloth to describe the material as well as the object.

So that's okay.

Pause and do that now.

Fantastic.

So the cloth is made from.

It's made from, we use the broad term fabric to describe lots of different soft materials.

So the cloth is made from fabric.

You could have said cloth there, but I'm going to use the word fabric.

And fabric is I would say soft.

You could have had soft and absorbent or soft and opaque or absorbent and opaque.

Okay, there were three that worked well for that.

So here I've got soft and absorbent, because I think those are probably the ones that are most important for the cloth.

But if you've got opaque as well, then that's correct too.

Pause if you need to tick or fix.

Amazing, well done.

I wonder, can you find any other fabric in your home? Maybe you can find a piece of clothing made from fabric.

And can you check its properties? Pause to do that now.

Great.

Well done.

Now, we need to have a think about the uses of materials for different objects.

What might we use certain materials for? Now, the table.

Can you hear it just where my laptop is sitting on top of? Why is the table, and you're going to choose the property you think is most important.

So choose one of the ones that you chose earlier.

So we either have, I'll remind you, we had hard.

We did have opaque as well, and we had waterproof.

But which one do you think is most important? Write down the table is mm so that, and finish the sentence.

Pause and do that now using this sentence structure.

Off you go Great.

Well done.

I think here you should have had the table is hard.

Okay, if it wasn't hard, it wouldn't be able to hold things on top of it.

The table is hard so that it holds items on top of it.

Okay.

I wouldn't be able to sit at it.

If I have a really soft table, everything would fall off it.

It wouldn't be a strong, hard surface for me to put thing on top of.

Pause if you need to write the sentence.

The table is hard so that it holds items or things on top of it.

Pause if you need to do that, or tick if you've got it right.

And you didn't have to say exactly that, but something to that sense.

Fantastic.

And finally, the cloth.

Now here, I want you to think carefully.

Yes, the cloth is soft.

Yes, the cloth is absorbent.

And yes, the club is opaque.

But which of those properties is the really important one? Where it wouldn't be able to do its job if it wasn't that property.

The cloth is mm so that mm so.

Pause and write it down.

Off you go.

Did you get it? The cloth is absorbent so that it can soak up water.

Also that you can clean up water, or clean up liquids.

You could have said anything like that, so that it absorbs or soaks up liquids.

Pause if you need to edit your sentence.

And we've just got a couple of final questions.

You're doing a really, really good job.

So quick-fire questions.

What material might you use for a jumper? Would you use wood? Certainly no.

Would you use clingfilm? Probably not.

What would you use? Tell your screen.

You'd probably use fabric or wool or cotton.

Okay, something that's going to be warm.

What material would you use for a water glass? Maybe you can think of two? Have a think.

Pause the video, tell your screen.

Great, you could have had glass.

You might have had plastic as well.

Something that's waterproof so that it holds the water.

And something that's solid and strong so that it stays and it keeps its shape.

And what material might you use for a chair? Tell your screen.

So plastic, wood.

Anything that, again, is strong and hard and is going to hold its shape.

And that brings us to the end of our lesson.

Now at the end of this lesson, after, when you go on next activity, there will be an end-of-lesson quiz.

With three, four, or five questions just to really check that you have been listening carefully in this lesson and to see how much of this learning you've remembered.

I'm sure you've done an amazing job.

So don't forget to complete the end-of-lesson quiz.

Great job today.

It's been such a pleasure to teach you this first science lesson of the materials unit.

I've had so much fun, and I hope you have too.

We're going to do a special cheer now.

We're going to do what's called an awesome cheer.

You go like this.

Awesome! Your turn.

You're going to do it for you and for all the other children during this lesson, ready? Awesome! One, two, three.

Amazing.

Great jobs, there.

I hope you come back for the next science lesson with me, Ms. Emms. If you'd like to share your work with Oak National, you can ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.

But don't forget to ask your parent or carer to do it for you.

Okay.

Bye, everyone.

I will see you.

I will see you next time.

I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson.

Bye!.