Learning objective

  • To make a motorised product and test its function.

Success criteria

  • I can make a working product with a
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National curriculum

Design and technology

Make

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Explain that the children will work to unscramble key vocabulary from the previous lesson. Display the Presentation: Anagrams and hand out whiteboards and pens. Explain the task to the children and ask them to write the correct word on their whiteboards.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing support

Should use the Resource: Making a Kapow Doodler (support) to follow clear step-by-step guidance while assembling their product; could build a Kapow Doodler without the switch to reduce complexity while still achieving a functioning outcome.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should investigate how changes to the weight, motor position or number of pens affect how the Kapow Doodler moves; should use logical reasoning to identify and solve problems in their construction and explain how they improved the design; could explain why different placements or sizes of the off-centre weight affect the movement, using evidence from their testing.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: making a working Kapow Doodler with

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Vocabulary definitions

  • off-centre

    Something that is positioned away from the middle.

  • improve

    To make something better by helping it work well, look nicer or be more useful.

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