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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: Light-up wearables

Creating and developing design criteria to ensure the success of a product.

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Learning objective

To develop design criteria.

Success criteria

I can decide

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National curriculum

Design and technology

Pupils should be

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Take the opportunity to remind the children of Design and technology projects they may have participated in before. Referencing specific units is unnecessary, but asking the children who they made the products for and what they did, will allow them to recall that their designs had a purpose. They may also have made things for…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could be provided with Activity: Product analysis: WAYV word bank; could use the stem sentences in the Activity: Design criteria to help them write the design criteria.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could be given the opportunity to make suggestions about how to solve each part of the design criteria. For example, they may suggest ways to attach the product to the user.

Ask questions like:

How can you make the product suitable for children?
Can you think of ways to attach the product to a person?
The micro:bit is a piece of computer technology but how will you tell it what to do?

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