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Predicting the Playground Treasure Sort

Use playground treasure-hunt observations to sort materials by color, texture, hardness, and flexibility and explain predictions.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

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14 questions
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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 samples by observed color, texture, hardness, and flexibility.
Students predict sorting groups using evidence from gentle pressing and bending tests.
Students explain why samples can share one property but differ in another.

How to use

Read the treasure notes together and keep them visible. Have students explain their predictions before completing the sorting and comparison tasks.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-PS1-1

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

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Predicting the Playground Treasure Sort

Use material clues to predict which groups samples will join.

Explore the Treasure Clues

Read the notes. Use the observations to compare and sort the pretend treasures.

The Playground Treasure Chest

A playground treasure hunt ends at a chest of colorful material samples. Before hiding them again, the play leader checks that they are safe to handle. The group looks at colors and gently feels surfaces. They press each sample with the same gentle push. A soft sample dents; a hard sample stays firm. They gently try to bend each sample without forcing it. The sample changes, but the tests stay the same. They record these clues.

A: Orange sponge. Rough texture. Soft. Bends easily.

B: Purple sponge. Rough texture. Soft. Bends easily.

C: Green felt. Fuzzy texture. Soft. Bends easily.

D: Orange wood piece. Rough texture. Hard. Stays straight in the bend test.

E: Purple thick plastic disk. Smooth texture. Hard. Stays straight in the bend test.

F: Green thin plastic strip. Smooth texture. Hard. Bends easily.

G: Orange rubber sheet. Smooth texture. Soft. Bends easily.

H: Purple felt. Fuzzy texture. Soft. Bends easily.

The first treasure trays are labeled by color. Sort the eight samples.

F: thin plastic stripA: spongeH: feltD: wood pieceC: feltE: thick plastic diskB: spongeG: rubber sheet