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Sorting Materials Into Groups 16.08.2020: Material

This document discusses different types of materials, their properties, and examples. It covers materials from living things like wood, paper, leather, cotton and wool. It also discusses non-living materials like various metals, chalk, clay, coal and sand. The document describes properties of materials like hardness, flexibility, transparency and solubility. It provides examples of materials for different objects and exercises to test understanding of materials.

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Sorting Materials Into Groups 16.08.2020: Material

This document discusses different types of materials, their properties, and examples. It covers materials from living things like wood, paper, leather, cotton and wool. It also discusses non-living materials like various metals, chalk, clay, coal and sand. The document describes properties of materials like hardness, flexibility, transparency and solubility. It provides examples of materials for different objects and exercises to test understanding of materials.

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4. Sorting Materials Into Groups 16.08.

2020

Material:

The substance used to make something is called a material.

Example - A school desk is made from wood, plastic, or metal—or a mixture


of all three materials.

A chair is made from wood or plastic or metals or combination of all three.

Here wood, plastic, metal are example of material.

Materials from living things:

Wood and paper from tree

Leather from animal skin

Cotton from plants

Wool from sheep

Materials from Nonliving Things

All metals like iron, gold, silver, diamond

Chalk, clay, coal, and sand

Properties of Materials:

Materials may be soft, hard, flexible (bendable), rigid (stiff), transparent (see-
through), opaque (meaning light does not shine through it), rough, smooth,
shiny, or dull.

Soft/Hard: Metals are hard. Cotton and sponge are soft.

Flexible/Rigid: Flexible material can bend easily without breaking.


Rigid material does not bend.
Transparent/Opaque

1. Opaque

2. Transparent

3. Translucent
Rough/Smooth

Shiny/Dull: Metals have shine or lustre. Ex- Iron, copper, aluminum,

Soluble and Insoluble

Some substances completely disappear or dissolve in water. These


substances are soluble in water.

Example: Sugar, Salt

Some substances do not mix with water and do not disappear. These
substances are insoluble in water.

Example: Oil, Petrol, Sand


Exercise
1. Name five objects which can be made from wood.
Solution:
a) Table
b) Chair
c) Doors
d) Desk
e) Box
2. Select those objects from the following which shine: Glass bowl,
plastic toy, steel spoon, cotton shirt
Solution:
Glass bowl, steel spoon

3.

Objects Materials

Book Paper

Tumbler Glass, Plastic

Chair Wood, Plastic

Toy Plastic, Wood

Shoe Leather
4. State whether the statements given below are True or False.
(i) Stone is transparent, while glass is opaque. False
(ii) A notebook has luster while eraser does not. False
(iii) Chalk dissolves in water. False
(iv) A piece of wood floats on water. True
(v) Sugar does not dissolve in water. False
(vi) Oil mixes with water. False
(vii) Sand settles down in water. True
(viii) Vinegar dissolves in water. True
5. Given below are the names of some objects and materials:
Group them as:
(a) Round shaped and other shapes (b) Eatables and non eatables
Solution:

a) Round shaped- basket ball, orange, globe, apple,


Other shapes- earthen pitcher
b) Eatables- Orange, Sugar, apple
Non eatables- basket ball, earthen pitcher, globe, water
6. List all items known to you that float on water. Check and see if they
will float on an oil or kerosene.

7. Find the odd one out from the following:


a) Chair, Bed, Table, Baby, Cupboard
b) Rose, Jasmine, Boat, Marigold, Lotus
c) Aluminum, Iron, Copper, Silver, Sand
d) Sugar, Salt, Sand, Copper sulphate

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