Ana's Hammer
Ana has a hammer head, but no handle. The handle must be hard.
Will every hard material make a good handle?
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Science · Grade 2 Science
Chapter 1: Properties of Materials
The table narrows it down. You still have to think.
Ana has a hammer head, but no handle. The handle must be hard.
Will every hard material make a good handle?
Make your guess to turn the page.
Still to come: 6 pages · Words to Know · What We Learned · 4 questions · Ask and Wonder
The idea this lesson is working on — Children trust a chart that says yes. Ana’s table asks only one question, is it hard, so it passes glass for a hammer handle. The silly answer is the lesson: it shows which test was missing. Ask: would you really use that? What did the table not ask?
Then try it — Real use asks questions nobody wrote down: is it too heavy, does it get slippery, does it last? Building the thing and using it is the one test that asks all of them at once.