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Grade 5 Natural Sciences Practical Guide

This document outlines a practical group work task for Grade 5 students at Rivermead Christian Academy, focusing on investigations of shininess, hardness, brittleness, and malleability using various materials. Students are required to predict outcomes, conduct experiments, and record observations for each task. The document includes specific questions and expected answers related to the properties of the items tested.

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Grade 5 Natural Sciences Practical Guide

This document outlines a practical group work task for Grade 5 students at Rivermead Christian Academy, focusing on investigations of shininess, hardness, brittleness, and malleability using various materials. Students are required to predict outcomes, conduct experiments, and record observations for each task. The document includes specific questions and expected answers related to the properties of the items tested.

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SCHOOL NAME : RIVERMEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

SUBJECT : NATURAL SCIENCES PRACTICAL GROUP


WORK

GRADE : 05

DATE : MAY 2024

GROUP MEMBERS : Uluthando . Afika. Lelona . Lethokuhle


PRACTICAL TASK
A. Each group will need the followings materials and equipment to do an investigation:
 A piece of wire (at least 10cm long).
 2 nails
 A coin (10c, 20c or 50c)
 A piece of hard coal
 A piece of hard chalk
 A sandpaper
 A heavy stone.

Task 1: investigating for shininess.


1a.) Predict: which item do you think will get shinier when rubbed or shined?
1b.) using a piece of cloth, rub or polish each item as hard as you can for a minute.
1c.) Which items got shinier when you rubbed?
1d.) Which items did not get shinier when rubbed together?

Task 2: investigating hardness.


2a.) Predict: Which item/s do you think will be the hardest?
2b.) using a nail, pin, math’s compass, or something sharp, and try to scratch a deep mark
into each of the five items.
2c.) Which items did not scratch?
2d.) Which items were you able to scratch?
2e.) Which items had the softest surface?
2f.) Which items had the hardest surface?

Task 3: investigating brittleness


3a.) Predict: which item/s do you think will break when dropped?
3b.) Hold each item at shoulder height and drop it onto the ground onto a hard floor.
3c.) which item/s did not break at all?
3d.) which item/s broke just a little?
3e.) which items were the most brittle?

Task 4: investigating malleability


For this task you are only going to test the wire, nail, and the coin.
4a.) which item/s do you think are malleable? (to test malleability, first try and bend the
item with your bare hands).
4b.) Name the metal items you were able to bend with your bare hands?
4c.) Which items were you unable to bend with your own hands?
 You are once again going to test the wire, nail, and the coin.
 Using a hammer or stone, see if you can flatten a part of the item with the weight
of the hammer.
4d.) Which item were you able to flatten slightly?
4e.) which item/s were you unable to flatten at all?
4f.) After doing these two tests for malleability, which of these three items are the most
malleable?

Answers.
1
a. the coin will get shinier and the iron nails.
b. All items will be rubbed.
c. the wire and the nail
d. nail, chalk and coal.
2.
a. the piece of nail and the stone will be the hardest.
b. All the items were scratched.
c. All the items will scratch.
d. Chalk
e. Stone.
3.
a) The stone and the chalk will break when dropped.
b) All items will be dropped to the ground.
c) Coal and stone
d) Coal and stone
e) Chalk.
4.
a) none of items will bend.
b) The wire
c) Coin and nail.
d) Coin
e) Nail
f) The wire

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