Inquiry Focus (IFocus):

Grade Level: 2
Curriculum link: Science Chemical Science

Different materials can be combined, including by mixing, for a particular purpose

Science involves asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and eve
Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and ev
Participate in different types of guided investigations to explore and answer questions, such as manipulating materia

(ACSIS038)

Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways such as oral and written langua

We want students to :
Understand that different materials can be combined, including by mixin
- Understand that a material is any substance with specific
- Understand that an object can be made of one or more
- To identify and sort materials based on paper, wood, glass
- To recognise materials that are made/formed naturally and those

What can
different
materials do?
How can
materials be
combined?

(refect) Evaluate

Elaborate

Explore

What is it made
of?

Explain

Engage

Guiding
Questions

What materials
can be
recycled?
Why are
materials
combined?

Task/Activity/Experience
- Identifying different things in
classroom and what they are made
of
- Collection of different things and
sorting into categories e.g. plastic,

Introduce word properties.

Explain transparent,
waterproof, strong, flexible,
opaque, absorbent, weak,
brittle,materials
rigid, inflexible
- Some
can be
combined, others cannot.
- Mixing, dissolving, evaporating
- Mixing materials together
a mixture,
sometimes
-creates
Sort materials
that
can and it
cannot be recycled.
- What does recycling mean?
What symbols show recycling is
possible? materials
What is the
Mobius
- Combining
or mixtures
are done to make something
better, light, stronger, stretchier
or tastier, more useful.

Social Context
(Ind/Pair/Gp)
Individual

Whole group

Whole group

Pairs
Whole
group

Whole group

Whole group