Design and technology at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 2)
Unit 2C: Winding up
Section 3: Design and make assignment (DMA) Design and make a winding up toy based on a chosen rhyme eg 'Incy Wincy Spider'
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Objectives |
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- to identify criteria for their design
- to select tools and materials and use correct vocabulary to name and describe them
- to assemble, join and combine materials to make a winding mechanism
- to understand the need for a stable structure to support a mechanism
- to evaluate against design criteria
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- Read the rhyme eg 'Incy Wincy Spider'.
- Ask the children to think carefully about their ideas. Which winding mechanisms would be most suitable for your toy? How will you construct the spider? How will you make the sun and rain work? How will you make it strong enough for people to use? Discuss other design criteria.
- Ask the children to collect their materials and list the tools that they think they will use.
- Encourage the children to make well-constructed structures. How is it going to move? How will you join the pieces so that it can move? How could you make it stronger? Where are the weak points? How could you reinforce them? Are there different ways of making this? Which would give the best results?
- Discuss what they have done and evaluate how well the toy works in relation to their design criteria.
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- apply what they have learnt through IDEAs and FPTs in their designing and making
- talk about what their design has to do to work well
- select appropriate tools and materials and name them
- construct a winding mechanism that works and has a straight axle
- talk about their finished products in relation to their design criteria
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