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    Understanding Materials
    Understanding Materials
    Understanding Materials
    Ebook123 pages14 minutes

    Understanding Materials

    By Alan Jones, Roy Purnell and Janet O'Neill

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    The Brilliant Support Activities series contains photocopiable activities for use with slower learners or pupils with learning difficulties at Key Stage 2. The books introduce one concept per sheet, using simple language and clear, black line illustrations making them easy to read and understand. Understanding Materials contains 42 photocopiable sheets to help pupils understand the properties of materials through investigation. They reinforce the methods of scientific enquiry by requiring pupils to plan, carry out practical activities, consider evidence, and present ideas and conclusions. They focus on grouping and classifying materials, changing materials, and separating mixtures of materials. Other concepts such as forces, heat and magnetism are included within the context of understanding the properties of materials.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliant Publications
    Release dateAug 14, 2012
    ISBN9780857475114
    Understanding Materials
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    Alan Jones

    Alan Jones was born in 1943 and grew up in Liverpool during the post-war years. He trained as a teacher at Chester College and pursued a career in Primary Education as a class teacher, headteacher, and university tutor. He is a Church of England Lay Reader Emeritus. Alan has published two other books, both of which are in the adult social history genre. They are, Don’t Wake Up George Brown! and Parishioners at War.

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      Understanding Materials - Alan Jones

      Brilliant Support Activities

      Understanding Materials

      Alan Jones, Roy Purnell and Janet O’Neill

      Published by Brilliant Publications, Unit 10, Sparrow Hall Farm, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU6 2ES

      Written by Alan Jones, Roy Purnell and Janet O’Neill

      Designed and illustrated by Small World Design

      The authors are grateful to the staff and pupils of Gellideg Junior School, Merthyr Tydfil for their help.

      First Published in 2000. Reprinted 2011.

      2012 digital version by Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      The right of Alan Jones, Roy Purnell and Janet O’Neill to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      Introduction to the series

      This series is designed to help the slower learner or pupils with learning difficulties at Key Stage 1 and 2 develop the essential skills of observation, predicting, recording and drawing conclusions. These pupils often have been neglected in more conventional commercial schemes of work. The books contain a mixture of paper-based tasks and ‘hands on’ activities. Symbols have been used to indicate different types of activities:

      What to do

      Think and do

      Read

      Investigate

      The sheets support the attainment target for Key Stage 2 Science, Section 1: Scientific enquiry and Section 3: Materials and their properties. The practical investigations use materials readily available in most primary schools. The activities have been vetted for safety, but as with any classroom based activity, it is the responsibility of the class teacher to do a risk assessment with her/his own pupils in mind.

      The sheets usually introduce one concept or National Curriculum statement per sheet (unless they are review sheets). The sheets are

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