Lesson Six – Farm Puppet
This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to design and make a puppet of a farmer using a movement mechanism to illustrate the matching actions of the character.
The class can shape and combine materials to make their puppet models to use when performing different actions to illustrate some of the things that might happen on a farm.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to design and make a puppet of a farmer using a movement mechanism to illustrate the matching actions of the character
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different ways of moving a puppet character and a template to make a model of a puppet of a farmer with a movement mechanism to show farm actions.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to make a puppet of a farmer using a movement mechanism to illustrate the character.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to design and make different toys that include a movement mechanism to illustrate things found and used on a farm. 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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