Learning objective
- To make and evaluate a torch.
Success criteria
- I can make a working circuit with a
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National curriculum
Design and technology
Make
Pupils should be
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Cross-curricular links
Science
Electricity
Pupils should be taught to:
- Recognise
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support:
May benefit from using pre-made shapes such as bottles, boxes or toilet rolls rather than creating the housing from scratch. Use a pre-made circuit as a model for pupils to copy. Use the star chart edition of the final evaluation.
Pupils working at greater depth:
Should create their housing from scratch and add special features to suit their ‘client’; chosen user profile. Extend and stretch their understanding by presenting them with transferable scenarios and open questioning; what if we were to design an ‘x’ (for example, speaker, lamp) for ‘x’ firefighter, cyclist)?
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: creating a functioning torch with a
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Vocabulary definitions
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aesthetics
To make something look nice.
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assemble
To make something by joining separate parts together.
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In this unit
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 8th July, 2024
