A hands-on Year 2 science lesson on everyday materials and their uses. Children learn the difference between an object and its material, meet wood, metal, plastic, glass, paper and cardboard, and ask why each material was chosen for its job — including whether a chocolate teapot would work! It is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint scaffold for an hour-long lesson on uses of everyday materials, with a squash-bend-twist-stretch testing activity and a Material Detectives classroom hunt.