Kindergarten · Science · Unit 3 of 5
Materials
Soft, hard, rough and smooth
What your child practises
Describing everyday materials (soft or hard, rough or smooth, bendy or stiff), what sinks or floats, and naming what things are made of, like wood, metal, glass and cloth.
BC Curriculum learning standard: Properties of familiar materials
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which one is hard?
- 🪶feather
- 🪨rock
- 🧦sock
Show answer
🪨 rock
Hint: Hard things don't squish when you press on them.
Question 2
Which one is made of paper?
- 📕book
- 🧱brick
- 🔑key
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📕 book
Hint: The pages of a book are made of paper.
Question 3
Which one bends easily?
- 🧱brick
- 📄paper
- 🪨rock
Show answer
📄 paper
Hint: Bendy things change shape when you bend them. Bricks and rocks stay stiff.
Question 4
Soft or hard? Tap a picture, then its basket.
Sort into: 🧸 soft · 🪨 hard
- 🧽sponge
- 🧱brick
- 🪶feather
- 🔑key
- 🧣scarf
- 🪙coin
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🧸 soft: sponge, feather, scarf · 🪨 hard: brick, key, coin
Hint: Squeeze it in your mind. Soft things squish. Hard things don't!
Question 5
Which one is made of wood?
- 🔑key
- 🪟window
- 🪵log
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🪵 log
Hint: Wood comes from trees. A log is part of a tree.
Question 6
Which one is made of cloth?
- 🪨rock
- 🔑key
- 👕T-shirt
Show answer
👕 T-shirt
Hint: Cloth is soft and bendy. Our clothes are made of cloth.