Straight Forward with Science offers a straightforward, but fun, approach to key science learning. Each book explores basic scientific principles and shows them in action, while simple activities and experiments bring the science to life.

Materials and Properties looks at what materials are and how we use them differently according to their properties. Solids, liquids and gases, mixing, separating and changing materials and matter are all also explored.

This book is part of a book series called Straight Forward With Science .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

Peter D. Riley is a full-time author and has written over 200 books for primary and secondary Science.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Materials around us
• 2: Conducting heat
• 3: Conducting electricity
• 4: Using materials
• 5: Solids, liquids, gases
• 6: Reversible changes
• 7: Mixing
• 8: Separating materials
• 9: Heat and change
• 10: Chemical reactions
• 11: New materials
• 12: Chemists and new materials
• 13: Particles of matter
• 14: Glossary
• 15: Index