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Lesson 2: Design

Planning a moving storybook using design criteria.
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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Arrange the children in pairs and display the Presentation: Brain dump. Show the children the assembled slider models from Lesson 1: Exploring sliders and movement. Ask them to take turns telling their partner everything they learnt about mechanisms in the last lesson.

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In this unit

Assessment – D&T Y1: Making a moving storybookLesson 1: Exploring sliders and movement
Lesson 2: Design
Lesson 3: ConstructionLesson 4: Testing and evaluation
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