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This unit builds on children's experiences of joining and combining sheet and reclaimed materials and of using moving joints. They learn about wheels and axles and how to use these when making wheeled vehicles for a specific purpose. They are encouraged to develop their design ideas based on investigating vehicles in the world around them. Work in this unit also offers opportunities to use construction kits, and computer-generated graphics or text to enhance their finished products, to apply basic measuring skills and to draw on knowledge of forces from science.
This unit could be adapted and based on other wheeled products eg service vehicles (fire engine, tip-up truck, milk float, ambulance), carnival float, prams and buggies, wheelchairs, shopping trolleys, wheelbarrows. The main features of the particular vehicle would be the purpose of the product.
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