Lesson 3: Making Baby Bear’s Chair

Considering what kind of chair Baby Bear would like, pupils develop a design criteria which uses all their knowledge of building strong and stable structures and begin to make their chairs

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Learning Objectives

  • Remembering that chairs are structures and need to be strong, stiff and stable

  • Creating joints and structures from paper/card and tape

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Teacher Video: Making Baby Bear’s chair

Pupil Video: Making Baby Bear's chair using paper and tape

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Pupil Video: Making Baby Bear's chair using straws and pipe cleaners

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