Key Stage One - Design Technology

Design Technology Teaching Resources

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in design technology in Key Stage One covering construction, materials, food, textiles and movement mechanisms

Castle Building

Explore and model some of the different shapes and techniques that can be used to construct a model of a castle showing the main parts and their functions
City Cafe

Select and combine different ingredients to design and make a range of foods including sandwiches and cakes that can be sold in café in a city location
Farm Toys

Design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm
Punch and Judy

Select, shape and combine textile and other materials to make a range of puppet characters that can be used to narrate a traditional story
Sandwiches

Select and prepare a range of different foods to use when following a recipe to make a sandwich for a picnic
Scarecrows

Select and combine different materials to design and make scarecrows for a garden to match identified success criteria
Toy Vehicles

Select and combine different materials to make a model of a toy vehicle with a movement mechanism to match chosen success criteria

New Teaching Resources for Key Stage One

Family News Events

Investigate and model how to compose news reports to describe some of the special events that can be experienced by a family
Sports Diary

Select matching vocabulary words and sentence structures to use when composing diary entries describing how to participate in different sport competitions at the Olympic games
Counting Twenty

Explore how to model and illustrate ways of counting different numbers of objects and pictures with matching sums to twenty
Alphabet Lists

Practise building lists of objects that have been recorded in alphabetical order to match different themes and topics