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Teacher: CW, AMD,MC

Class: 8, 9, 10

Year groups: 5/6

Date: AutumnII

Subject: Design Technology

THINKING SKILLS

KEY SKILLS

Information Processing

Reasoning

Enquiry

Communication

Application ofnumber

Creative

Thinking

Evaluation

Informationtechnology

Working withothers

Improving own learning

Problem solving

Wk

LearningObjective

Teaching/ LearningActivities

Expectedoutcomes

Assessment forlearning

3

Children should:

Select appropriate tools and techniques formaking their product;

Suggest alternative ways of making their product,if first attempts fail;

Measure, mark out, cut and shape a range ofmaterials and assemble, join and combine components and materialsaccurately;

Usefinishing techniques to strengthen and improve the appearance oftheir product;

Follow health and safety procedures;

Prior to the lesson, set up 2 workinggroups:

Wood joining,

Making wallpaper

Introduction:

Give chn 5 mins at the beginning ofthe lesson to discuss wallpaper designs for the house and choosewhich one they are to use for their room.

Show chn the batons that were cut tosize in the previous week and discuss, using black hat thinking,any weaknesses there may be joining the wood in the L shapedjoint as discussed last week.

Show the chn how triangles of cardscan be used in the corners, as right-angles (link to this weeksmaths work on angles) to strengthen the joints.

Main Activity:

Split each group into pairs and begincarousel.

Teacher to work with the chn, joining the framesfor the rooms ensuring health and safety measures arefollowed.

1^st carousel group to make squareframe for ceiling,

2^nd carousel group to make squareframe for floor,

3^rd carousel group to make sideframes.

2^nd group:

Tomake wallpaper on brown paper.

3^rd group:

Todraw and annotate the corner joints on the worksheet.

Plenary:

Show each of the cubes and discuss the next stepsfor the making of the rooms (Green hat thinking).

Each group to look at the strengths andweaknesses of their room so far, using yellow and black hatthinking.

Children can:

LA/ L3:

Measure accurately;

Choose appropriate tools, equipment, materials,components an techniques for their design;

MA/ L4:

Useaccurate measurements;

Select and work with a range of equipment;

Select and work with a range of tools andequipment;

HA/ L5:

Useaccurate measurements;

Select and work with a range of equipment;

Work with a range of tools, materials, equipmentand components and processes with precision;

Resources

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/Wallpaper/William_Morris/index.html

Joining worksheets

Examples of wallpaper

http://www.bbc.co.uk/homes/design/period_victorian.shtml

Vocabulary:

Designing eg modelling, scalemodel, fair test

Knowledge and understanding:

 triangulation, diagonal,stable, strength, framework, material, tube, rigid, section, waterresistance, tie, strut, beam, bracket, stay, member, horizontal,vertical, gusset