Farm Toys
This design technology scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm. The class can try making model toys using card linkages and rotation to create different movements.
Design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm
Lesson One : Toy Movements
Identify, describe and record some of the different ways that a range of toys can be moved about when playing games
Lesson Two : Sliding Toys
Practise shaping and combining different materials to produce a model of a toy that includes a moving element for a sliding action
Lesson Three : Wobbly Toys
Explore how to design and build a model of a farm toy that uses card linkages to create different movements to show the matching actions of an animal
Lesson Four : Farm Animals
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
Lesson Five : Spinning Toy
Investigate how to build a model of a toy that includes rotational movements to show some of the different actions that might happen on a farm
Lesson Six : Farm Puppet
Explore how to design and make a puppet of a farmer using a movement mechanism to illustrate the matching actions of the character
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty