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This unit has been replaced by the unit *NEW* Structures: Constructing a windmill and will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify some features that would appeal to the client (a mouse) and create a suitable design.
- Explain how their design appeals to the mouse.
- Make stable structures, which will eventually support the turbine, out of card, tape and glue.
- Make functioning turbines and axles that are assembled into the main supporting structure.
- Say what is good about their windmill and what they could do better.
Suggested prior learning
Mechanisms: Making a moving storybook
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Lesson plans
Lesson 1: Designing the structure
Lesson 2: Assembling the structure
Lesson 3: Assembling the windmill
Lesson 4: Testing and evaluating
Key skills
- Learning the importance of
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Key knowledge
- To understand that the
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Key vocabulary
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: DT – Y1 Constructing windmills
A pupil-facing summary document, capturing the key learning from this Year 1 Structures: Constructing a windmill unit.
Vocabulary display: Constructing a windmill
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Constructing a windmill unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Mathematics
Geometry – properties of shape
Build on the learning
Structures: Baby Bear’s chair
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