A My World and Textease support pack for KS2 Science with activities on most aspects of the Science curriculum relating to Materials and their properties appropriate for this age group including the differences between solids, liquids and gases, the properties and uses of common materials, thermal insulators, electrical conductors, rocks and soils, the water cycle, seperating materials by sieving, evaporation, filtering and magnetism, soluble and insoluble materials, changing materials, reversible and non-reversable reactions. Full documenatation and sample screen shot PDF files may be viewed by clicking the links below.
THE TITLE AND THE CURRICULUM:
The title supports many of the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 relating to Materials and their properties. Some aspects of the KS3 syllabus have been included to enable gifted and talented pupils to make further progress.
KEY STAGE 2 – SC3 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES:
Grouping and classifying materials:
1a) To compare everyday materials and objects on the basis of their properties and to relate these properties to everyday uses of the materials.
1b) that some materials are better thermal insulators than others.
1c) that some materials are better electrical conductors than others.
1d) to describe and group rocks and soils on the basis of their characteristics, including appearance, texture and permeability.
1e) to recognise differences between solids, liquids and gases, in terms of ease of flow and maintenance of shape and volume.
Changing materials:
2a) to describe changes that occur when materials are mixed.
2b to describe changes that occur when materials are heated or cooled.
2c) that temperature is a measure of how hot or cold things are.
2d) about reversible changes including dissolving, melting, boiling, condensing, freezing and evaporating.
2e) the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.
2f) that non-reversible changes result in the formation of new materials.
2g) that burning materials results in the formation of new materials.
Separating mixtures of materials:
3a) how to separate particles of different sizes by sieving.
3b) that some solids dissolve in water to give solutions but some do not.
3c) how to separate insoluble solids from water by filtering.
3d) how to recover dissolved solids by evaporating the liquid from the solution.
3e) to use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be
separated.
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KEY STAGE 3 – SC3 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES:
Geological changes:
2e) about the formation of rocks and that the mode of formation determined their texture.
2f) how igneous rocks are formed by the cooling of magma, sedimentary rocks by the
deposition of sediments and metamorphic rocks by the action of heat or pressure on
existing rocks.
Click here for the full documentation (71.2 KB)
Click here for sample screen shots (31.1 KB)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SOFTWARE REQUIRES MY WORLD OR TEXTEASE TO RUN. The Textease format has software speech. The My World format has scaling buttons that are particularly useful for children with VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. The CD-ROM includes both the the My World 3 and Textease format of the software. The My World 3 format self installs. The Textease format must be manually installed.
Both the English and English / Welsh versions of My World 3 are available from ClicSoft.
Materials and their Properties is also available in Welsh.
The screens provide a variety of activities including dragging, labelling, sorting and investigative activities. Many may lead to related classroom activities e.g. 'hands on' practical work. Buttons enable pupils to access task, help and research panels enabling them to work individually or in groups with minimal teacher supervision. Text buttons, word and picture banks may be used to add further information to the screens.
A 'New Screen' option accessed via the Task panels is a useful extra function. The new screens are normally blank, but have the same buttons as the related screens. They may be customised by teachers and pupils alike and used to extend topic areas or complete tasks set by the teacher. They are useful when the related screens have fixed graphic / or text and for adapting the set activities for pupils with special needs.
This software is particularly useful for introducing new topic areas and revising previous topics. The nature of both My World and Textease means that the screens are adaptable. The software may be used as both text book and exercise book and may be customised by teachers and pupils alike. The screens do not self correct giving children the opportunity to make and justify their own decisions. With differentiation by outcome, each screen thus provides assessment opportunities.
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