Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify whether a mechanism is a side-to-side slider or an up-and-down slider and determine what movement the mechanism will make.
- Clearly label drawings to show which parts of their design will move and in which direction.
- Make a picture, which meets the design criteria, with parts that move purposefully as planned.
- Evaluate the main strengths and weaknesses of their design and suggest alterations.
Suggested prior learning
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Exploring sliders and movement
Lesson 2: Design
Lesson 3: Construction
Lesson 4: Testing and evaluation
Key skills
- Explaining how to adapt
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Key knowledge
- To know that a
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Key vocabulary
sliders
mechanism
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Unit resources
Assessment D&T Y1: Making a moving story book
Assessment D&T Y1: Making a moving story book
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D&T Long-term plans
National curriculum mapping
National curriculum mapping
D&T: Progression of pupil skills and knowledge
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Assessment
Assessment
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
‘Pupils should be taught to:
develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by:
- learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart’
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Mechanisms: Wheels and axles
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