Lesson 3: Making the card

Pupils design a greeting card with a working circuit, accurately labelling the positive and negative parts of the battery.

Before the lesson

Learning objective

  • To create a greetings card

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose aimed at particular individuals or groups.
  • Generate, develop and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches
  • Understand and use electrical systems in their products
  • Understand and use electrical systems in their products [for example, series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors]

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Learners needing support: Should create a simple front cover design and may benefit from copying a circuit design rather than creating their own.

 

Learners working at a stretch: Should create a detailed card, perhaps with a pop-up element, which incorporates more than one LED into its circuit.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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Design and Technology specialist
After 4 years of being a TV and radio presenter, Vicki headed to the secondary classroom where she spent 12 years teaching Design and Technology as well as PE. Working as a subject leader, she ran D&T tournaments and weekly…
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