Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe garden objects made from different materials and compare shapes that could be used for different garden constructions and a worksheet to practise folding materials to make different supporting structures that might be used for constructions built in a garden.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and illustrate some of the different ways of providing support to a construction by shaping materials.

This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select, shape and combine different materials to plan, build and test a model of a garden construction suitable for growing plants and flowers. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.