Lesson Five – Weather Construction

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to select and shape a range of materials to build different instruments that can be used to measure aspects of the weather such as wind speed and rainfall.
The class can check and record how their design matches the selected success criteria for their product of a weather instrument.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and shape range of materials to build different instruments that can be used to measure aspects of the weather such as wind speed and rainfall
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the properties of different materials that could be used to build a range of products and a template to select and record the success criteria to match weather instruments with a movement mechanism.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select and shape materials to build different instruments that can be used to measure the weather.
This lesson is part of a design technology scheme of work to get the children to select materials and techniques to utilise when designing and making a range of instruments that can be used measure the local weather around the school. 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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