Assessing Knowledge and Understanding Using KS2 QCA Units Topic: 6c Materials and their properties
Evidence :
Level 2
The children will identify a
Level range of common materials and
descriptors know about their properties.
They will describe similarities
and differences between
materials. They will sort
materials into groups and
describe the basis of their
groupings in everyday terms.
The children recognise that
How do the temperature is a measure of
level how hot or cold objects are.
descriptors They know that some parts of
relate to QCA the classroom are warmer than
Scheme of
others. They recognise everyday
Work and
uses of thermal insulators such
Classroom
practice as a thick coat, a flask, a
polystyrene cup/box.
Children’s
Names
Level 3
The children will use their knowledge and
understanding of materials when they describe a
variety of ways of sorting them into groups
according to their properties. They will explain
simply why some materials are particularly suitable
for specific purposes.
The children will recognise that touch is not an
accurate way of measuring temperature. They can
explain why some parts of the classroom are
warmer than others. The children will identify
some materials that are good thermal insulators
such as wood and plastic and give some everyday
uses of them. They know that metal is not a good
thermal insulator. They will recognise that the
same materials keep cold objects cold as keep
warm objects warm. They will recognise that
objects cool and warm when they are left.
Level 4
Describe the differences between the
properties of different materials and link
to knowledge and understanding of
reversible and irreversible changes.(Yr 6
Unit. They will use correctly the terms
associated with changes of stage: boil,
melt, freeze
The children will recognise that objects
cool or warm to the temperature of their
surroundings when they are left.
They will recognise that metals are both
good thermal and electrical conductors.
Level 5
Describe some metallic properties
(e.g. good electrical conductivity)
and use these properties to
distinguish metals from other solids
Identify a range of contexts in
which changes (e.g. evaporation,
condensation) take place
Use knowledge about how a specific
mixture (e.g. salt and water, sand
and water) can be separated to
suggest ways in which similar
mixtures might be separated
The children will recognise that
substances are made up of particles.
They will be able to describe
elements as basic building blocks for
all substances.
They will describe metals as solid
elements with high melting points
that are good thermal and electrical
conductors and describe other
solids as non-metals.
Children will know that only iron,
steel, nickel and cobalt are magnetic
Know that the physical properties of
non-metals vary a considerably but
that most of them are good thermal
and electrical insulators