Lesson One – Garden Shapes

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore and illustrate some of the different ways of providing support to a building construction by shaping a range of materials.

The class can identify and describe the best shapes that can be used when constructing a model to match a specific function such as a fence or wall built around a family garden.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore and illustrate some of the different ways of providing support to a building construction by shaping a range of materials

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe garden objects made from different materials and compare shapes that could be used for different garden constructions and a worksheet to practise folding materials to make different supporting structures that might be used for constructions built in a garden.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and illustrate some of the different ways of providing support to a construction by shaping materials.

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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