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Subjects

Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 5: Tinkercad design

Designing a new tyre for the Mars rover using online 3D design software.

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Learning objective

To design a functional tyre for the Mars rover using Tinkercad.

Success criteria

I can apply what I learned from Tinkercad

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

Understand

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Cross-curricular links

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Pupils should be taught

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Brain dump and hand out whiteboards and pens (one each). Ask the children to write down everything they can remember about Tinkercad.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could be provided with a simple template to adapt when creating their design; could be provided with sentence starters to explain their design.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should independently access and learn the design skills available within the software; should be encouraged to think of how to improve their design.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: applying tools and techniques learnt in

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Vocabulary definitions

3D

Three dimensional.
CAD

Computer-aided design, software used to create graphics, diagrams or other visuals.

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Example work

Barton Moss Primary School, Manchester

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In this unit

Assessment - Computing Y5: Mars Rover 2

Lesson 1: Pixels

Lesson 2: Compressing images

Lesson 3: Fetch, decode, execute

Lesson 4: Tinkering with CAD

Lesson 5: Tinkercad design

Originally created by:

Richard Williams

Computing specialist

Richard is a Year 6 Teacher at St. Pancras Primary School. Richard’s passion for teaching was recognised when he received Suffolk’s ‘Raising The Bar’ award for Innovation 2016. With his class he made the world’s first guided VR:360 school tour and also a…

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