Lesson Five – Building Greenhouses

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to 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.
The class can identify and explain how to shape and combine materials to build a structure that matches the selected success criteria for the completed garden construction.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to 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
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different constructions that can used for a garden building and a worksheet to construct the framework when building a model of a greenhouse to match selected success criteria for the completed construction.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to construct the frame for a structure that can be used to grow plants and flowers in a garden.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get 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. 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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