KS1 Material Investigations: Two Bundle | Hands-On Education

In this year two topic, your child will have the opportunity to explore and experiment with different materials. One of the activities involves finding the bounciest ball, while the other activity involves testing the strength of different types of paper by carrying the most marbles. These activities provide a great opportunity for your child to learn about the properties of materials and how they interact with different surfaces. By exploring how materials move and change with different surfaces, your child will gain a better understanding of how the world around them works.

These activities align with the National Curriculum of England’s Science standards, and are designed to be engaging and fun for primary aged children. If you are looking for more resources to support your child’s learning, you can check out the other key stage one topics available on our website. We cover a wide range of subjects, including measurements,properties of materials, and flying machines. Our resources include videos, activity sheets, and easy-to-understand activity plans to support your child’s learning journey.

About Hands-On Education
Each hands-on lesson (or activity plan) provides parents and teachers with all the information needed to undertake and complete each activity successfully. We fully outline every step of the way, from what materials you need, to how the final solution may look, covering everything in-between. A huge amount of research has gone into each lesson and much of the key information we pass on to you, as the educator to pass on to your child or classroom. Our method is one of ‘learning by doing’ making the activities open ended with no ‘correct’ outcomes at the end. Our priority is for children to enjoy their learning experiences and allowing for children of various ages to join in the activities.

Many of our lessons take place outside and we encourage you to take advantage of locations in your local areas. We believe your child can learn about the world around them by exploring the world at their doorstep. The activity plans are all written with a single child in mind, they have not been developed purely for a home education or state school in mind. As they are developed to be quite flexible our intention is that they can be expanded to a two child household or a thirty child classroom with relative ease.

Many of the activities are accompanied by supporting activity sheets (worksheets, timeline cards, etc…) and videos which you may choose to use alongside the lesson. We love books and recommend your local library as one of the best free resources available to you. Check out loads of books about the topic you are learning and spend time reading and looking through them together. In many topics we recommend books related to the activity or broader subject. We offer a full booklist that you may wish to checkout.