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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Three Digit Values
Investigate and compare the place value of the matching sets of digits in numbers to one thousand to indicate their hundreds, tens and ones values
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Conflict Poetry
Explore how different poets use figurative language in poetry to illustrate and compare themes and ideas about conflict to other objects and emotions
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Recycled Art
Explore how to shape and combine different recycled materials to produce a sculpture reflecting the theme of recycling
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Decimal Values
Investigate and record how to compare the values of different decimal numbers by the positions of their tenths, hundredths and thousandths digits