Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify whether a mechanism is a side-to-side slider or an up-and-down slider and determine what movement the mechanism will make.
- Clearly label drawings to show which parts of their design will move and in which direction.
- Make a picture, which meets the design criteria, with parts that move purposefully as planned.
- Evaluate the main strengths and weaknesses of their design and suggest alterations.
Suggested prior learning
*New* Cooking and nutrition: Smoothies
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Exploring sliders and movement
Lesson 2: Design
Lesson 3: Construction
Lesson 4: Testing and evaluation
Key skills
- Explaining how to adapt
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
sliders
mechanism
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Unit resources
Assessment D&T Y1: Making a moving story book
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser
A summary document with key facts,
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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
This National curriculum coverage document shows
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D&T: Progression of pupil skills and knowledge
Progression documents showing how skills and
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Equipment list
A handy spreadsheet allowing you to
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Assessment
Spreadsheet to record teacher assessments against
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Key vocabulary
Vocabulary document that shows key vocabulary
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
- learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart’