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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify some features that would appeal to the client (a mouse) and create a suitable design.
- Explain how their design appeals to the mouse.
- Make stable structures, which will eventually support the turbine, out of card, tape and glue.
- Make functioning turbines and axles that are assembled into the main supporting structure.
- Say what is good about their windmill and what they could do better.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanisms: Making a moving storybook
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Lesson plans
Lesson 1: Designing the structure
Lesson 2: Assembling the structure
Lesson 3: Assembling the windmill
Lesson 4: Testing and evaluating
Key skills
- Learning the importance of
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Key knowledge
- To understand that the
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Key vocabulary
axle
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Unit resources
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.'
Vocabulary display – D&T Y1: Structures: Constructing a windmill
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Constructing a windmill'.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shape.
Build on the learning
Structures: Baby Bear’s chair
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