This worksheet provides a plan for a lesson will help younger children understand sorting recycling into different bins.
Early Learning Goals
We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.
The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.
(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!
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We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.
The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.
We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.
The worksheets on this page will help students at KS1 (Year 1 & 2; 5-7 years old) understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.
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.
(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
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The Science of Materials allows us to find out what stuff is made of and their properties. It determines what we use for what purpose, ie. not using chocolate to make teapots or concrete to make trampolines!
The activity described in the worksheet below allows KS2 students to test a variety of materials and record the properties of each of a range of samples. This is the activity that our Waste Education Team deliver on our Free School Trips.
Material scientists use the properties of materials to sort out recycling too – find out how in the video below about Material Recycling Facilities – see if you can spot all of the properties used to sort out different materials into clean streams for recycling into new stuff.
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.
(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.
We use electrical equipment every day at home, work and at school. Whether a piece of toast in the morning, a nice cup of tea or photocopied worksheets, almost everything we do in the modern world relies on electricity to power it. But do we actually know how they work and what to do with them at the end of their lives? The science of electrical equipment explains how they work and helps us to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.
The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind the electrical equipment they use at home.
(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!
(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: Design a new pylon!
Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.
Paper can be recycled everywhere in Devon from the kerbside (see our District Recycling Sheets). To find out what happens after the recycling truck leaves your doorstep watch our video about how paper is recycled in Devon.
Paper is everywhere! From our earliest pictures stuck to the frid
ge by our parents to the letter telling us about the latest supermarket offers, even in our modern society, paper is still used for writing and drawing or passing on information. And who can imagine a world without toilet roll! From magazines to junk mail there are lots of ways to reduce the amount of paper we use in our everyday lives. Check out our resource pages to find out more about Paper.
We have created Science of Materials: Paper worksheets for all ages. Each worksheet is accompanied by a quiz to assess learning. Some also include a playlist of relevant videos.
We hope the worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind paper. 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!
Why not try out our fun quiz at the bottom of the page too!
(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: Investigating the Absorbency of Toilet Paper
(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: Investigating the Absorbency of Toilet Paper
Link to Home Ed YouTube Playlist about Toilet Paper
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We all rely on the science of materials every day as it tells us which are the best materials to use for different things – like not using chocolate to make teapots, or glass to make trampolines. It also shows us how to dispose or recycle items safely and sustainably at the end of their lives.
Food is vital and a precious resource, so isn’t it crazy that we waste about a third of all food produced! Check out our resource pages to find out more about Food Waste.
Food can be recycled almost everywhere in Devon. Most districts collect food waste in special caddies in their kerbside collections (see our District Recycling Sheets).
The worksheets on this page will help young people understand the science behind food waste. 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!
(pdf) Download Home Education Worksheet: Make your own zero-waste lunch
(Word) Download Home Education Worksheet: Make your own zero-waste lunch
Visit our Home Education pages for more Activities suitable for Home Learning.
