Year 5 Properties and Changes of Materials Knowledge Organiser!

This clear, detailed and visually-appealing resource offers a complete reference point for Year 5 children, teachers and parents covering knowledge relating to ‘Properties and Changes of Materials’, as a part of their science learning. It contains comprehensive sections on:

What you should already know (from learning in earlier years);
Grouping Materials by Properties;
Solutions and Separation;
Reversible and Irreversible Changes;
Types of Reversible and Irreversible Changes;
Key Vocabulary.

The content is fully aligned with the NC expectations for Year 5 children relating to ‘Properties and Changes of Materials’:
-Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties,
including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and
thermal), and response to magnets;
-Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution;
-Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be
separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating;
-Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular
uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic;
-Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes;
-Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

The resource is designed to be printed onto A3, and is provided as both a PDF and a Word version (so that you can edit if you want to). All images used are licensed for commercial use and are cited on a separate document (included).