Structures

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BBC Characteristics of materials
Grades: 3, 5
Summary: Discover the characteristics of materials. How strong is glass? How flexible is metal?

How to integrate: Shared
This is a great lesson that illustrates a concept that is hard to show to each individual student.

Wonderville
Grades: 3, 5
Summary: Play a few games that allow the students to become familiar with different materials and the forces that act on these materials such as compression, torsion, bending, and tension.

How to integrate: Shared

BBC's The Sarah Jane Adventures - Characteristics of Materials 
Grades: 3 and up
Summary: Read like a graphic novel, the dangerous Androvax has crash-landed on Earth! Sabotage his escape plans by tricking him into building a space ship out of the wrong materials.  There are 2 games in total.
Game 1: Drag the tools to test the materials properties to see which material would be suitable to be used to build the space ship.
Game 2: Drag the wrong materials into the parts of the ship to fool Androvax.


How to integrate: Independent