Activate the vocabulary to your students

Hello everyone! Well in this post my purpose is give some activities about how you can activate the vocabulary in your students. 

The subject is Natural Science and we are now learning about the materials. Those activities are for students in 3rd of Primary but if you want you can use it to other level. The goal in this unit is that students have to learn the different kind of material that we can find around us and the properties about those materials, so it is important for them to activate the vocabulary about that.  

Here you have some videos to understand better the materials and their properties:

In this first video you can see the differents properties that an object can have, paper in this case. 

In the second video you have the differents materials and their pronuntiation, with this we want to help to know the different materials and their pronuntiation.

Important vocabulary 

Materials                     Properties 

Metal                               Smooth/Rough             
Glass                                Soft/Hard 
Fabric                              Transparent/Opaque
Paper                               Flexible/Rigid
Plastic                             Waterproof/Absorbent
                                         Float/Sink 

Activity 1: What material is it?

Click in the link and guess the material of the object. 

click in the link and guess!

Activity 2: crossword

Find the property that we are talking about in the clue. 

Across

3. not easily to broken

4. not able to be seen through 5. your skin has this property 6. in the water boats can ...

Down

1. unable to be force out of shape

2. Something that is water resistant

Activity 3: Find the property!

Click in the link and start to play!

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