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Grade 5: G5: How the World Works (older)

Materials

Central Idea:
Materials can undergo changes that provide challenges and benefits (for society and the environment).

Lines of Inquiry:

  • How materials change through natural and synthetic processes (change, form, transformation)
  • The benefits and challenges of different materials (responsibility and causation)

What is a material?

What do we mean when we say "materials?" What are the properties of different materials? How do materials change?

Natural vs. Synthetic Materials

BrainPop videos about the States of Matter

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Material World Videos

What are materials?

How Diamonds are formed

Chemical Changes

Changing Materials

FactMonster article about Changing Materials

 

Plastics

Click here to watch a Brain Pop video about Plastics

How is plastic recycled?

What is the process to recycle plastic? What are the challenges in recycling all the plastic that we use?

How is steel produced?

How is steel produced?

Places to research

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How do Materials change?

What are the 3 different types of matter? Click here to learn more!

Image from Encyclopædia Britannica

Biodegradable vs. Non-biodegradable

Hand blown glass

How are Diamonds created?

How to materials change?

Materials: Properties and Purposes

Generation Genius video about the properties and purposes of different materials

How is steel get made?

Making a textile

How crayons are made

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