This design technology scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets 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. The class can identify and explain how to use materials to provide support for a specific construction.

Select, shape and combine different materials to plan, build and test a model of a garden construction suitable for growing plants and flowers

Lesson One : Garden Shapes

Explore and illustrate some of the different ways of providing support to a building construction by shaping a range of materials

Lesson Two : Supporting Structures

Investigate and record some of the different ways of supporting a range of shapes and materials in the construction of a building material

Lesson Three : Triangle Supports

Design and test some of the different ways of supporting wooden cuboid frames by using triangle supports structures on the vertices

Lesson Four : Greenhouse Design

Explore how to select and record the design for a structure that can be used to grow some different plants in a family garden

Lesson Five : Building Greenhouses

Practise using different shapes and materials to construct the frame for a structure that can be used to grow some plants and flowers in a garden

Lesson Six : Testing Greenhouses

Practise testing and evaluating completed greenhouse frame structures against the selected success criteria for the matching constructions

  • Town Flag

    Town Flag

    Investigate and practise how to create different graphic shapes that can be utilised when producing a flag representing the local community

  • Three Digit Values

    Three Digit Values

    Investigate and compare the place value of the matching sets of digits in numbers to one thousand to indicate their hundreds, tens and ones values

  • Conflict Poetry

    Conflict Poetry

    Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions

  • Recycled Art

    Recycled Art

    Explore how to shape and combine different recycled materials to produce a sculpture reflecting the theme of recycling