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Useful & Harmful Materials

This document discusses classifying materials as either useful or harmful. It provides questions to guide identifying materials around the home and determining if they are safe or pose risks. Useful materials can be recycled, repaired, or have value when disposed, while harmful materials bring hazards, can cause injuries, and pollute the environment when not properly disposed. The document encourages observing different materials and understanding which should be considered useful or harmful waste.

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Useful & Harmful Materials

This document discusses classifying materials as either useful or harmful. It provides questions to guide identifying materials around the home and determining if they are safe or pose risks. Useful materials can be recycled, repaired, or have value when disposed, while harmful materials bring hazards, can cause injuries, and pollute the environment when not properly disposed. The document encourages observing different materials and understanding which should be considered useful or harmful waste.

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Useful & Harmful

Materials
August 30, 2023
Describe the
materials
Guide questions:

1.) What can you say about it?

2.) What is the object made of?

3.) Is the material safe or harmful?


Why?
Identify the picture and tell its uses.
Observing and
Classifying
You will need: Science Notebook & Ballpen

What to do:

1.) Look around your house. List 2 materials


that you see.

2.) Classify the following materials as safe or


harmful. Cross out the harmful waste
materials.
Answer the following questions:

Guide questions:
1.) How did you classify the materials? 1.) Aside from the materials given in the text. What
other materials in your home can you consider as
harmful? Why do you consider them as harmful?
2.) Why do we need to know which
materials are useful and harmful? 2.) How do you properly dispose of the materials you
have listed above?
USEFUL
MATERIALS
USEFUL MATERIALS
Materials considered useful when it serve a purpose. There materials may have
properties such as durability, resistance to water, heat & acid, flexibility, elasticity,
hardness and many more.
Useful Materials
 Can be recycled.

 Can be repaired.

 Something can be recovered from the material.

 A material that serves it purpose.

 Can be used for other purposes.

 Can be dumped straight into a landfill.


Harmful Materials
• Materials that bring hazard.
• broken glass can caused cuts or injury
• Toxic substances may also be present in the things you commonly used such as
paints, cleaners, fumes, gel, or powders etc.
Harmful Materials
 Materials that are toxic/hazard to us.
 Materials that can cause injury.
 Materials that cannot be dumped straight into a landfill.
 Can pollute the environment easily.
 Take too much time to decompose.
 Cannot be reused or recycled.
Thank you
&
A blessed
day!

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