Lesson Five – Vehicle Design
This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore how to select and record ways of constructing and using a mechanism when building a toy vehicle that makes different movements and actions.
The class can explain and model how to complete a plan to record and explain their design ideas for the movement mechanism to match the selected success criteria.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and record ways of constructing and using a mechanism when building a toy vehicle that makes different movements and actions
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the best ways of building a toy vehicle with a movement mechanism, a set of cards to explore and record how to construct and build a toy vehicle and a template to plan the design for a model of a toy vehicle that includes a movement mechanism.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record how to construct and use a movement mechanism to build a toy vehicle.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select and combine a range of different materials to make a model of a toy vehicle with a movement mechanism to match chosen success criteria. 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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