• Age groups: 4-7s
• Subjects: Citizenship, Science, PSE
• Topics: Waste

Curriculum links

England

Science

Everyday materials 

Pupils should be taught to:

• distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made 
• identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock 
• describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials 
• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties.

Scotland

Sciences

Students can explore the properties and sources of materials and choose appropriate materials to solve practical challenges.

Social Studies

Students can consider ways of looking after their school or community and can encourage others to care for their environment.

Expressive Arts

Students can choose and explore a range of media, discovering their effects.

Wales

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Students can experiment with different everyday materials and use their senses to sort them into groups; and understand how some everyday materials change in shape when stretched, squashed, bent and twisted.

PSD

Students can take responsibility for their own actions and demonstrate care and affection for their environment.

Creative Development

Students can explore and experiment with different materials and make choices with choosing materials.

Northern Ireland

Science

Students can explore how human activity can create waste in a variety of ways and that people’s actions can affect plants, animals and places.

PD&MU

Students should understand how the environment could be made better or worse to live in and what contribution we can make.

Arts

Students can explore the visual elements of colour, tone, line, shape, form, space, texture and pattern to express ideas.