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Cardboard Worksheets: Home Activity

11 September 2023/in All, Cardboard, Home Education, Science, Subject Link/by Lucy Mottram

Cardboard is one of the most useful materials in our modern world. Light, adaptable, cheap to make and easy to reuse or recycle it is ideal for jobs such as food packaging and parcel delivery. The science of materials helps understand the life cycle, properties and recycling. These investigations will help students understand how to recycle materials safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the adaptable and useful material that is cardboard.

To find out more about card and cardboard visit our materials webpage.

Downloadable Worksheets

Videos

Home Education Worksheet:

(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: : What can you make
from a cardboard box?

(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: : What can you make
from a cardboard box?

Link to Home Education Playlist about Cardboard

Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.

An illustration of a chair and a glass bottle, along with the words Guess the Word. The background consists of question marks.

Summer Holiday Activities: Guess the Word

2 September 2022/0 Comments/in Blog, Home Education, News/by Lucy Mottram

This guess the word game focused on materials will get the whole family involved!

Laura Armstrong

Summer holiday activity: Make nets for 3D shapes

26 August 2022/0 Comments/in Blog, Home Education, News/by Lucy Mottram

Have fun using old magazines to make shapes…

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Summer holiday activity: Packaging symbol Sudoku

19 August 2022/0 Comments/in Blog, Home Education, News/by Lucy Mottram

Challenge your children to do our Packaging Symbol Sudoku.

Summer holiday activity: Fancy a word search?

12 August 2022/in Blog, Home Education, News/by Lucy Mottram

Download now available!

Summer holiday activity: What was it like?

4 August 2022/0 Comments/in Home Education, News/by Lucy Mottram

What was rubbish collection like in the old days? Start a conversation with an older friend or relative and find out!

An egg is surrounded by empty cardboard packaging, a yogurt pot, a fruit punnet, shredded paper, scissors and string.

Egg drop challenge: A Summer holiday activity!

29 July 2022/0 Comments/in Blog, Food Waste, Home Education, Materials Link, News/by Lucy Mottram

Take on the #EggDropChallenge! Use recyclable and reused items from around the house to protect an egg from a fall!

Laura Armstrong

Make nets for 3D shapes

8 December 2021/0 Comments/in Blog, Home Education, Materials Link, News, Paper, Reuse, Teaching Resources/by Lucy Mottram

Have fun using old magazines to make shapes…

Textiles Worksheets: Home Activity

20 July 2021/in Home, Home Education, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Science, Subject Link, Textiles/by Lucy Mottram

The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science of textiles. This activity has been designed for all ages to be able to complete at home, whether you are home educating, home schooling or just looking for a summer holiday activity.

We hope doing these activities will create better scientists and more critical thinkers. We know the wicked problems (complex and difficult issues like climate change and biodiversity loss) we are leaving the next generation will need some innovative thinking to solve them!