Greenhouses
This design technology scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to select, shape and combine different materials to plan, build and test a model of a garden construction suitable for growing plants and flowers. The class can identify and explain how to use materials to provide support for a specific construction.
Select, shape and combine different materials to plan, build and test a model of a garden construction suitable for growing plants and flowers
Lesson One : Garden Shapes
Explore and illustrate some of the different ways of providing support to a building construction by shaping a range of materials
Lesson Two : Supporting Structures
Investigate and record some of the different ways of supporting a range of shapes and materials in the construction of a building material
Lesson Three : Triangle Supports
Design and test some of the different ways of supporting wooden cuboid frames by using triangle supports structures on the vertices
Lesson Four : Greenhouse Design
Explore how to select and record the design for a structure that can be used to grow some different plants in a family garden
Lesson Five : Building Greenhouses
Practise using different shapes and materials to construct the frame for a structure that can be used to grow some plants and flowers in a garden
Lesson Six : Testing Greenhouses
Practise testing and evaluating completed greenhouse frame structures against the selected success criteria for the matching constructions
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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