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Sorting Samples at the Rocky Coast Lighthouse

Sort lighthouse samples by color, texture, hardness, and flexibility using pictures and simple observation notes.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students sort materials by color, texture, hardness, and flexibility.
Students use observations from gentle press and bend tests to compare materials.
Students explain why one property cannot be used to predict another property.

How to use

Read the lighthouse notes together, then have students use the picture samples and test results to complete each sort and comparison.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-PS1-1

Sort materials by properties such as color, texture, hardness and flexibility.

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Sorting Samples at the Rocky Coast Lighthouse

Use observations to sort lighthouse materials by their properties.

Look at the lighthouse samples

A lighthouse crew gathered six samples from a supply box. Read the notes and use the pictures to sort the samples.

Notes from the Rocky Coast Lighthouse

At a lighthouse on a rocky coast, Lena and Jorge prepared a small display about materials. They gathered a shell, rope, rock, flag, can, and boot. They looked at each sample and touched its surface. Then they gently pressed each sample to see whether it dented. Finally, they gently bent each sample to see whether it bent easily or stayed straight.

Their notes said: The shell was white, smooth, hard, and stayed straight. The rope was gray, rough, soft, and bent easily. The rock was gray, rough, hard, and stayed straight. The flag was red, smooth, soft, and bent easily. The can was silver, smooth, hard, and stayed straight. The boot was black, bumpy, hard, and bent easily.

Sort the pictures by color.