Please note
This unit introduces a new windmill design for a new client, which the children will construct to meet updated design criteria. The Archived unit: Structures: Constructing a windmill will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Follow design criteria to meet the needs of a user.
- Make a stable structure.
- Make functioning sails/blades that attach to the supporting structure.
- Improve their windmill.
Structures: Junk modelling
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Lesson plans
Lesson 1: Windmills
Lesson 2: Making the sails
Lesson 3: Attaching the sails
Lesson 4: Evaluating windmills
Key skills
- Finding the middle of
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That the sails
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Key vocabulary
base
centre
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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: Structures: 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
Maths: Geometry – properties of shapes
Pupils use their knowledge of shapes to identify circles and find the centre to help them construct a windmill structure.
Build on the learning
Structures: Baby Bear’s chair
Pupils build on their knowledge of free-standing structures from making a windmill to help them create more complex structures in Baby Bear’s Chair.