Lesson Five – Castle Construction
This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and combine a range of different materials to build a model of a castle to match selected success criteria.
The class can identify and explain why they might need to use specific materials to construct each part of a castle such as choosing the correct materials to build strong and stable castle walls.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and combine a range of different materials to build a model of a castle to match selected success criteria
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to solve problems when building a model of a castle and a table display card to help select and combine materials to make a model of a castle to match success criteria.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and combine different materials to build a model of a castle to match success criteria.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to 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. 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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