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Lesson 3: Making the card

Pupils design a greeting card with a working circuit, accurately labelling the positive and negative parts of the battery.

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Before the lesson

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Learning objective

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National curriculum

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Success criteria

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Cross-curricular links

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Attention grabber

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Main event

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Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: Should create a simple front cover design and may benefit from copying a circuit design rather than creating their own.

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Should create a detailed card, perhaps with a pop-up element, which incorporates more than one LED into its circuit.

Wrapping up

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Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

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Vocabulary

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After 4 years of being a TV and radio presenter, Vicki headed to the secondary classroom where she spent 12 years teaching Design and Technology as well as PE. Working as a subject leader, she ran D&T tournaments and weekly…
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