Learning objectives
- To understand what waterproof means and to test whether materials are waterproof.
EYFS outcomes
Communication and language
- Articulate their ideas and thoughts in well-formed sentences.
- Connect one idea or action to another using a range of connectives.
- Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, and to explain how things work and why they might happen.
- ELG: Speaking: Participate in small group, class and one-to-one discussions, offering their own ideas, using recently introduced vocabulary
- ELG: Speaking: Offer explanations for why things might happen.
Understanding the world
- Explore the natural world around them.
- ELG: The Natural World: Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants
Characteristics of effective learning
> Playing and exploring
> Active learning
> Creating and thinking critically
Next steps
To test and make predictions for which materials float or sink.
Note any specific next steps for individual pupils.
