Lesson Four – Farm Animals
This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to design and build a model of a toy that uses card linkages to create a range of different movements to represent actions of an animal that lives on a farm.
The class can select card shapes to represent parts of an animal which can then be linked to make different movements to represent actions such as the beak of a goose.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to design and build a model of a toy that uses card linkages to create a range of different movements to represent actions of an animal that lives on a farm
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 toy using card linkages to create different movements to represent a farm animal.
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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