Raw Materials and Manufactured Products: An English Lesson Plan for Social Sciences
Are you looking for English teaching resources for a primary school social sciences class on raw materials and manufactured products? If so, you’ve come to the right place.
I compiled the English lesson materials on this page to use with third grade social sciences classes in a bilingual primary school in Spain. The lesson, titled “Making and Selling” teaches students about raw materials, where they come from (their origins), how we obtain them, and how we turn them into manufactured products.
After completing this lesson, students should be able to differentiate between raw materials and manufactured products, and they should be able to identify which raw materials are needed for certain basic manufactured products. They should also be able to identify whether a raw material comes from plants, animals, the Earth (i.e. rocks), or bodies of water (i.e. fish).
If the above teaching objectives match those you have for your own students, the resources on this page should be able to help you!
English Songs:
Materials and Their Properties - This English song is helpful for teaching students about different materials and their properties (i.e. transparent vs. opaque).
English Games:
Categories! - Divide students into teams of 4-6 people. Explain that you will give the students a category, and they will have to think of as many English words and phrases in that category as they can before time runs out. Instruct students to assign a group leader who will write down all of the words and phrases they think of. Put an online timer on the screen. (The amount of time you give students for each category is up to you, but I would suggest 2-5 minutes.) Then, tell students the first category and start the timer. When the timer ends, make each group read aloud their responses, and give them a point for each correct answer. Keep track of the groups’ points on the board to get the students excited. Examples of categories you might want to use for a lesson on raw materials and manufactured products include (but are by no means limited to):
Manufactured products made from wood (or plastic, or glass, etc.)
Raw materials that come from plants (or from animals, or from the Earth, etc.)
Materials that can be recycled
Other English games: I have a couple of other English games and interactive classroom activities within the lesson plan below…
Complete English Lesson Plan:
To download the English lesson plan above as a Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, click here.
I hope the resources above lighten your lesson planning workload!
Happy teaching!
