Learning objective

  • To research and evaluate existing products.

Success criteria

  • I can describe
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National curriculum

Design and technology

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

This lesson builds on knowledge and concepts introduced in these lessons: Design and technology, Year 2, Mechanisms: Making a moving monster, Lesson 1: Pivots, levers and linkages – children analyse existing products and say something that they like about them. Hold up a toy car and ask the children these questions:

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could respond to simplified questions when analysing the products:

  • What do you like about the product? Write or say two things.
  • What do you dislike about the product? Write or say two things.
  • What star rating would you give the product?

 

Pupils working at greater depth 

Could think about the older products on the activity sheet and think about how they have improved now; could make links between an invention like glasses and Google glass, or say for example that a smartphone plays music now, so we don’t need the Sony Walkman anymore; might tell you that technology is better now than it was, so new products exist.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: explaining who might use

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Vocabulary definitions

  • analogue

    Something that is electronic but doesn't use computer technology.

  • analyse

    Look at something in detail.

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