Mechanical systems: Making a pop-up book
After choosing a simple story or nursery rhyme, children create a four-page pop-up storybook design. They will also add accompanying captions, incorporating a range of mechanisms and decorative features, including: structures, levers, sliders, layers and spacers
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Produce a suitable plan for each page of their book.
- Produce the structure of the book.
- Assemble the components necessary for all their structures/mechanisms.
- Hide the mechanical elements with more layers using spacers where needed.
- Use a range of mechanisms and structures to illustrate their story and make it interactive for the users.
- Use appropriate materials and captions to illustrate the story.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanical systems: Making a slingshot car
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Pop-up book page design
Lesson 2: Making my pop-up book
Lesson 3: Using layers and spacers
Lesson 4: Writing and illustrating
Key skills
- Designing a pop-up book
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Key knowledge
- To know that mechanisms
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Key vocabulary
design
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Unit resources
Assessment D&T Y5: Mechanical systems: Pop-up book
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D&T Long-term plans
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None relevant to this lesson.
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