Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Describe how axles help wheels move a vehicle and design and label a working fairground wheel.
- Evaluate different designs.
- Describe the properties of different materials and select appropriate materials for the wheel.
- Build a stable structure, test elements of the design and adapt the design as necessary.
- Make the wheel rotate, evaluate a wheel mechanism and adapt it as necessary.
- Recall that a survey is used to find out what people like, tally results and use the results to inform the design.
- Add pods for the correct number of people and ensure that the pods stay upright when rotating around a fixed point.
- Explain the decisions for the pod design.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanisms: Wheels and axles
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Design a fairground wheel
Lesson 2: Planning the build
Lesson 3: Building the frame and wheels
Lesson 4: Surveying design opinions
Lesson 5: Adding pods and decoration
Key skills
Design
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Key knowledge
Design
To know:
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Key vocabulary
design brief
design criteria
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Materials with different properties (rubbers, paper, card, rulers etc) ×8
- Paper plates
- A selection of Straws
- Modelling dough ×30
- Empty food and drink packaging As needed
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Heavy objects to weigh down the packaging (sand, marbles, building bricks etc)
- Art materials ×8
- Card ×30
- A selection of Paper fasteners (split pins)
The equipment below is optional
- 2D shapes
- Hole punch ×1
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y2: Mechanisms: Fairground wheel
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Fairground wheel’.
Vocabulary display – D&T Y2: Mechanisms: Fairground wheel
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Fairground wheel'.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes.
Science: Uses of everyday materials.
British values: Mutual respect; Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
Art.
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Mechanisms: Levers
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