Learning Map
ScienceMatter & Materialsusually ages 5–6

Naming Everyday Materials

Identify and name a variety of everyday materials including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock

How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

Can your child look around a room and correctly name the materials things are made of — like glass in the window, metal in the radiator, and plastic in a pen?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
Objects vs Materialsages 5–6Must distinguish objects from materials before naming specific materials
Naming Everyday Materialsthis skill · ages 5–6
Unlocks
Describing Material Propertiesages 5–6Must name materials before describing their properties

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 NSW · 2 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

STE-SCI-01low confidenceScience and Technology K-6 · Early Stage 1

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U04medium confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand
VC2S2U05medium confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Describing Material Propertiesages 5–6 Grouping Materialsages 5–6 Objects vs Materialsages 5–6 States of Matter Vocabularyages 5–7

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