Properties and Changes of Materials Year 5 Science Booklet | KS2 Materials, Mixtures, Reversible & Irreversible Changes
Year 5 Properties and Changes of Materials booklet. KS2 Science: hardness, solubility, conductivity, mixtures, dissolving, reversible and irreversible.
The Year 5 Materials unit is one of the most practical units of KS2 Science: comparing materials by their properties, separating mixtures, and distinguishing reversible from irreversible changes. This booklet gives learners structured tasks to record their thinking and link the practical activities back to the National Curriculum learning outcomes.
What's inside:
- Material properties: hardness, solubility, transparency, electrical and thermal conductivity, magnetic responses — with sorting and classification activities
- Mixtures and how to separate them: filtering, sieving, evaporation, magnetism — matched to the right type of mixture
- Dissolving: solute, solvent, solution, saturation; investigating factors that affect rate of dissolving (temperature, particle size, stirring)
- Reversible changes (dissolving, melting, freezing, evaporation) vs irreversible changes (burning, rusting, the action of acid on bicarbonate)
- Famous scientists and link-back working-scientifically activities consistent with the rest of the Advisory Science Year 5 series
UK National Curriculum reference: Year 5 Science, Properties and Changes of Materials. Aligned to the statutory requirements: compare and group materials based on properties; understand dissolving, mixing and changes of state; explain that some changes form new materials and that this kind of change is not usually reversible.
Who it's for: Year 5 class teachers planning the Materials unit, primary science leads, primary science tutors, parents supporting their child's Year 5 science learning, and homeschool families on the UK national curriculum.
Pair with the free video: The WHOLE Year 5 Materials Unit — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Law03LV5-rs
Also pair with: Year 5 Science Quiz: Reversible vs Irreversible (True/False) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMIO_-Qf8qA
Read the blog post: How Gap-Fill Worksheets Support Adaptive Learning in Science — https://advisoryscience.com/blog/retrieval-adaptive-learning-resources/why-gap-fill-worksheets-transform-adaptive-learning-in-science
Related Year 5 booklets: Scientific Method, Living Things and Their Habitats (Life Cycles), Forces, Earth and Space, Animals Including Humans.
Related KS2 retrieval resources: Year 5 Science Gap Fill Pack, Year 5 Science Vocabulary Match, Year 5 Science Frayer Models.
Made by an award-winning science educator with 25+ years of teaching experience. Used by 150+ UK schools. Instant download, A4 PDF, print-ready.
Licence: digital product. Personal/classroom use only. Print copies for your own child/children or your class; not for sharing on school drives, WhatsApp groups, social media, or resellers.
Tags (6): Year 5 materials | KS2 properties of materials | dissolving mixtures separation | reversible irreversible changes | UK national curriculum Year 5 | homeschool primary science.
