What’s on the What Things Are Made Of poster
A 6-row table: Material · What it is like · Used for.
We choose a material because of what it can do.
- Wood — strong, easy to cut — tables, pencils
- Metal — hard, shiny, bends — spoons, cars
- Plastic — light, waterproof — bottles, toys
- Glass — see-through, breakable — windows, jars
- Fabric — soft, bendy — clothes, curtains
- Paper — thin, tears easily — books, bags
Ask why windows are not made of wood. The property is the answer.
Questions about the What Things Are Made Of poster
- What’s on the What Things Are Made Of poster?
- A 6-row table: Material · What it is like · Used for. We choose a material because of what it can do. Wood — strong, easy to cut — tables, pencils; Metal — hard, shiny, bends — spoons, cars; Plastic — light, waterproof — bottles, toys; Glass — see-through, breakable — windows, jars; Fabric — soft, bendy — clothes, curtains; Paper — thin, tears easily — books, bags. Ask why windows are not made of wood. The property is the answer.
- Who is the What Things Are Made Of poster for?
- What Things Are Made Of is filed under 1st Grade (ages 6–7), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting science, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the What Things Are Made Of poster?
- Pick up any object and ask what it is made of, and why that material was chosen. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What Things Are Made Of belongs on the wall where that science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with What Things Are Made Of?
- The Four Seasons, Animal Groups and Parts of a Plant sit alongside What Things Are Made Of in the 1st Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Four SeasonsAnimal GroupsParts of a Plant
- Is the What Things Are Made Of poster free to download and print?
- Yes. What Things Are Made Of downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 1st Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the What Things Are Made Of poster print at?
- What Things Are Made Of is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of What Things Are Made Of loses nothing.Printing guide
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