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Lesson 4: Fixing and testing Baby Bear’s chair

Solving problems to adapt the structure of Baby Bear's chair as necessary.

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Learning objective

  • To produce a finished structure and evaluate its strength, stiffness and stability.

Success criteria

  • I can identify that the chair I design needs to be strong, stiff, stable and support Teddy.

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Tom Turnham Design and technology specialist

Tom has been a teacher for seven years and, as Head of Upper School at The Belham Primary School, he has a keen interest in young people and good causes. For the past seventeen years he has volunteered with various youth organisations ranging from scouting to a narrow boat charity. At the end of a long day, Tom loves nothing more than to go for a run or a cycle and can often be found on his window seat with a good book, watching the world go by. He spends the school holidays wisely, visiting ski resorts or travelling to warmer climes to eat alfresco in the sunshine.

Among many D&T lessons, Tom has created a textiles project for pupils that allows them to make their own hand puppets while learning a range of technical skills.

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