Teaching Ideas for Design Technology
Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for design technology.
-
Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
-
Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
-
Class Games
Devise a number of games for the class to play to reinforce their understanding of different skills that are needed when working in a range of curriculum subjects
-
Pancake Party
Investigate the meaning behind Shrove Tuesday and celebrate pancakes in different curriculum subjects and lessons
-
Love Hearts
Develop literacy and fine motor skills by baking and decorating biscuits with special messages to give to someone on Valentine’s Day
-
Learning Zones
Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas
-
Christmas Celebrations
Develop and refine skills in a range of curriculum subjects when celebrating and enjoying the festive season
-
Christmas Market
Invite other pupils and parents into the classroom to purchase food snacks, cards and decorations made by the class for Christmas
-
Halloween Party Food
Design and make a range of food snacks and cocktail drinks that could be served at a family Halloween party
-
Local History
Develop cross-curricular skills by exploring the history and location of different buildings found in the local area
-
Current Events
Develop skills in all curriculum areas by harnessing interest in events currently happening around the world
-
School Adventures
Develop practical, social and physical skills across the curriculum by completing a range of activities in the school grounds
-
Shape Locations
Explain and model how to record and change the co-ordinate positions of some different geometric shapes using translation and reflection movements in the first quadrant.
-
Shape Symmetry
Explore, record and compare the matching lines of symmetry that can be found in a range of different geometric shapes as part of their individual properties
-
Shape Matching
Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their matching individual properties including the number of sides, vertices and lines of symmetry
-
Buses, Trains, Planes
Select patterned language to use when writing poems describing ways of travelling when making different journeys