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ARCHIVED Year 1: Structures: Constructing a windmill (Version 2)

Making a windmill to meet design criteria.

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Unit outcomes

Pupils who are secure will be able to:

  • Follow design criteria to meet the needs of a user.
  • Make a stable structure.
  • Make functioning sails/blades that attach to the supporting structure.
  • Improve their windmill.

Lesson plans

Lesson 1: Windmills

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Lesson 2: Making the sails

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Lesson 3: Attaching the sails

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Lesson 4: Evaluating windmills

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Key skills

  • Finding the middle of
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Key knowledge

To know:

  • That the sails
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Key vocabulary

base

centre

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Knowledge organiser- D&T Y1: Constructing windmills

Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'Structures: Constructing a windmill.'

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Vocabulary display – D&T Y1: Structures: Constructing a windmill

A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Constructing a windmill'.

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Maths: Geometry – properties of shapes

 

Pupils use their knowledge of shapes to identify circles and find the centre to help them construct a windmill structure.

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