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.

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Downloadable Worksheets

Quizzes

Key Stage 1 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS1 Worksheet: Boxing up Teddy

(Word) Download KS1 Worksheet: Boxing up Teddy

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Father and daughter building cardboard house

Science of Materials: KS1: Cardboard Quiz

Quick quiz to test learning from our KS1 science activity worksheet

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Which country invented cardboard?

Pile of cardboard

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What is card most often used for?

Toilet roll holder

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What year was cardboard invented?

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Name some of the properties of cardboards

Cardboard boxes in a pile ready to be recycled

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What is cardboard made from?

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True or false, you can recycle cardboard.

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Choose the reasons why we should recycle.

Recycling Centre street sign

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Key Stage 2 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS2 Worksheet: Can you make cardboard out of cardboard?

(Word) Download KS2 Worksheet: Can you make cardboard out of cardboard?

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Man carrying a stack of 5 cardboard boxes, almost falling over with a pile of cardboard boxes behind

Science of Materials: KS2 Cardboard Quiz

This quiz tests learning from our KS2 science activity.

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Which country invented cardboard?

Pile of cardboard

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What year was cardboard invented?

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Name some of the properties of cardboards

Cardboard boxes in a pile ready to be recycled

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What is card most often used for?

Toilet roll holder

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How much paper does the average British family throw away each year?

Tree from Bollow

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How much water can we save by recycling 1 ton of cardboard?

Drop of water

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What percentage of the cardboard in the UK is made from recycled cardboard?

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True or false, cardboard is easier to recycle than it is to make new.

Pile of cardboard

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Choose the reasons why we should recycle.

Recycling Centre street sign

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Key Stage 3 Worksheet:

(pdf) Download KS3 Worksheet: The story of a cardboard box

(Word) Download KS3 Worksheet: The story of a cardboard box

(Word) Download KS3 Worksheet: Systems Thinking

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Science of Materials: KS3/4 Cardboard Quiz

Test your knowledge of cardboard with our KS3/4 cardboard quiz!

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Which country invented cardboard?

Pile of cardboard

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What year was cardboard invented?

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When did Sir Malcolm Thornhill make the first cardboard box for packaging?

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What is card most often used for?

Toilet roll holder

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How much paper and cardboard was produced globally in 2018?

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What percentage of the cardboard in the UK is made from recycled cardboard?

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True or false, cardboard is easier to recycle than it is to make new.

Pile of cardboard

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How much energy do you save by recycling cardboard instead producing new cardboard?

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How much water can we save by recycling 1 ton of cardboard?

Drop of water

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What is cardboard made of that is indigestible to humans but that  ruminants and rodents can digest?

Image of a mouse peering over stones in the grass

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How much paper does the average British family throw away each year?

Tree from Bollow

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Name some of the properties of cardboards

Cardboard boxes in a pile ready to be recycled

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What process do you think would be better than mining iron from the ground?

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Choose the reasons why we should recycle.

Recycling Centre street sign

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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?

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