Properties of Nonmetals - Inferences Activity

Four illustrated clue cards, four quick decisions. Rubber is wrapped around a wire so no electricity escapes. A chunk of sulfur crumbles to powder instead of flattening. A helium balloon floats up and away. And a shiny material bends into wire and carries electricity - so is it even a nonmetal? For each card, students circle what they can figure out, then underline the words that tipped them off. It is property reasoning for TEKS 6.6C that fits in one page.

What's Included

• 1 student page: 4 illustrated inference cards with three answer choices each
• 1 teacher key page with the answer and the exact clue words for every card, plus a short note on handling the underlining task

How It Helps You Teach

• Moves students from vocabulary to reasoning: which nonmetal property does each real-world clue reveal?
• The final card flips the task - students meet a metal and must rule out "nonmetal" using its properties, which is exactly the classification skill in TEKS 6.6C
• The underlining step makes student thinking visible without turning the sheet into a writing task

Pair It With

This sheet is part of a four-activity Properties of Nonmetals set: Context Clues, Inferences, Science in the News (hydrogen as a clean fuel), and Science Sort (Nonmetal or Metal?). Check out our library for the other three and the full set.

Standards: TEKS 6.6C; NGSS PS1.A / MS-PS1-3. Part of the Daily Science series by Workybooks.