Please note
This unit has now been replaced by the Year 1 unit Structures: Constructing a windmill and will be unavailable from August 2024. This unit is no longer being updated.
If you would like to continue with the existing version of this unit, it is still available via this unit hub.
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 story book
Get startedLessons
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
Assessment D&T Y1: Constructing a windmill
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
A pupil-facing summary document, capturing the
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Key vocabulary
Subject resources
D&T Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Design
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National curriculum mapping
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D&T: Progression of pupil skills and knowledge
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Equipment list
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Assessment
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Key vocabulary
Vocabulary document that shows key vocabulary
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics
Geometry – properties of shape