Lesson Three – Wobbly Animals
This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to design and build a model of a farm toy that uses card linkages to create different movements to show the matching actions of an animal.
The class can create card shapes for different animals and use a card linkage to move one part of the animal’s body such as a pig’s tail and a horse’s legs.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to design and build a model of a farm toy that uses card linkages to create different movements to show the matching actions of an animal
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different movements that might be made by farm animals, a template to make a model of a farm animal that utilises movement around a fixed pivot and a worksheet to use linkages to move a part of a farm animal.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to build a model of a farm toy animal using card linkages to create different movements,
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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