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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Design and label a wheel.
- Consider the designs of others and make comments about their practicality or appeal.
- Consider the materials, shape, construction and mechanisms of their wheel.
- Label their designs.
- Build a stable structure with a rotating wheel.
- Test and adapt their designs as necessary.
- Follow a design plan to make a completed model of the wheel.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanisms: Wheels and axles
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Design a Ferris wheel
Lesson 2: Planning the build
Lesson 3: Building the frame and wheels
Lesson 4: Adding pods and decoration
Key skills
- Selecting a suitable linkage
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Key knowledge
- To know that different
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Key vocabulary
design
design criteria
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y2: Mechanisms: Fairground wheel
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Fairground wheel’.
Vocabulary display – D&T Y2: Mechanisms: Fairground wheel
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Fairground wheel'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes.
Science: Uses of everyday materials.
Build on the learning
Mechanisms: Making a moving monster
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