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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 2: Strengthening materials

Building and testing different paper structures to destruction.

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Learning objective

To understand that the shape of the structure affects its strength.

Success criteria

I can understand the meaning of the words

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National curriculum

Design and technology

Make

Pupils should be

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Cross-curricular links

None.

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Opposites and allow time for paired disscusion.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could work with pre-made tubes (toilet rolls, kitchen roll tubes or wrapping paper tubes).

Pupils working at greater depth

Should make better quality structures; could make and test different shaped structures to identify the strongest and the weakest; could be shown a structure and be asked to make it stronger and more stable by considering the size, shape, materials used and how they are fixed together.

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