Design Challenges
This design technology scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise working with a range of different materials and construction techniques to create products to match selected success criteria. The class can construct models to solve problems that might occur in a family home.
Newspaper Challenges
Plan and model how to solve a range of different design problems for a family home when creating matching products by using some everyday materials
Bedroom Changes
Explore how to select and record some of the special design changes and improvements that could be made to the layout of a bedroom in a family home
Garden Designs
Investigate how to select and suggest changes and improvements that can be made to the design of a family garden by incorporating some special new features and plants
Home Designs
Explore how to plan and model how to make some different products that can be used to solve a range of problems around the family home to match selected success criteria
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Money Multiplication
Explain and model how to use standard written calculation methods to multiply money amounts in pounds and pence when solving number problems
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Sport Teams
Explain and model how to use brackets and dashes to add extra information to sentences describing how to play sports and games as part of a team