Plan engaging lessons for your students using inquiry based learning activities in your science lessons. This inquiry activity sort cards are reusable and simple for your inquiry science lesson on materials and their properties. The inquiry based learning sort cards are designed to be used during the engage and explore phases of your inquiry based science lesson. Simply let your students sort the picture into categories and discuss.

Sort cards can be used in multiple different ways, from up the front modelling or independent activities, and are even great inquiry activities for pre-schoolers as they allow for in-depth conversation and modelling of vocabulary. Ask your students to sort by hard and soft, by opaque and transparent, by type of material and many more.

OPEN-ENDED:

- Sort by material type (metal, paper, wood, glass, fabric or plastic)

- Sort by use

- Sort by hard or soft

These sorts cards provide a way for students to engage with new concepts in an opened way and are linked to the Australian Curriculum and NSW Syllabus (ES1/F + KS1) science outcomes.

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