Materials with Common Properties

Start with something students can look at or think about: a photo, a short video, a jar on the windowsill, or a question like "what do you already know about materials with common properties?" Then let them work through it independently after a quick group example, checking in with a partner if they get stuck, keeping a word bank or anchor chart in view so the vocabulary stays available. When you review, ask students how they knew, and let them point to the part of the diagram or reading that told them. These materials with common properties worksheets work well as a lead in before an investigation, as a way to capture what students noticed afterward, or as review before an assessment.

These materials with common properties worksheets for 2nd grade give students a clear, visual way to work through one of the big ideas in material properties. Students label diagrams, sort and classify examples, read short explanations, and answer questions that ask them to say why, not just what. Each page keeps the science vocabulary front and center so students leave with the words they need to talk about materials with common properties accurately. Working through materials with common properties on paper gives 2nd grade students something concrete to hold onto before, during, or after the hands on part of a lesson.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade material properties, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with materials with common properties. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Students learn that objects made from very different materials can still share a property, for example glass and clear plastic are both see through. Grouping activities ask children to find the shared property and state it in a sentence, which is a step beyond describing one object at a time.

This topic appears in the Grade 2 physical science unit once students can name basic properties. It supports the standard asking students to classify materials by observable properties, and it prepares them for testing materials for specific uses.

Pull six household objects onto the table and ask your child to make two groups, then explain the rule they used. Do it again with a different rule. That one activity is exactly the thinking these worksheets are designed to practice.

6 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 2nd Grade students, roughly ages 7-8. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.

Yes. Each one shows the NGSS code it covers on its own page, so you can check the alignment yourself rather than taking our word for it.

Yes. Nothing here assumes a classroom of 25, so they work the same one-to-one at the kitchen table as they do in a 2nd Grade classroom, a literacy centre, or a tutoring session.