• Key Stage 1
  • Forces
  • Ourselves
  • Plants
  • Materials
  • Light
  • Sound
  • Variation
  • Life Cycles
  • Animals
• Key Stage 2
  • Ourselves
  • Life Cycles
  • Habitats
  • Changing State
  • Materials
  • Forces
  • Light
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Energy
  • Food

Find out about the properties of materials with these links to free to use interactive activities.

Grouping Materials Text

This database lets you find out about the properties of various common materials. It can be explored in several ways to allow you to group materials by a single property - such as those that conduct electricity - or by several different properties.

Materials 1 Interactive

Label words are simply dragged and dropped into the correct place in the picture. When all words have been placed the user clicks on the check button to get feedback on their selection.

Materials 2 Interactive

The materials sorting and labelling application is a simple to use science vocabulary exercise. Label words are simply dragged and dropped into the correct place in the picture.

Materials Worksheet Printable

A set of ten worksheets in pdf or word format to test knowledge of materials.

Mission Materials Interactive

Use your skills to pick materials which have the correct property off the moving conveyor belt! Three level to choose from.

Solids, Liquids, Gases Interactive

Cartoon animations explain in simple terms why different materials have different properties and how they change on heating and cooling. Other animations cover separating solids from liquids and show what happens to a solid when it dissolves in a liquid.

Sorting Materials Interactive

BBC interactive experiment in sorting and testing materials with a quiz.