Design and Technology
Summer 2
Food and Nutrition.
We will:
- design, make and evaluate a fruit dish.
- use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare a fruit dish.
- develop our understanding of good hygiene.
- explore a range of ingredients, testing and tasting what we would like to include in our recipes.
- learn to use hand tools and kitchen equipment safely.
- peel and cut ingredients.
- carefully assemble ingredients to create an appealing dish.
- understand that all food comes from plants or animals.
Autumn 2
During Autumn 2 the children have been working to design a new building for Chadderton. As part of the structures unit children have used key skills to prepare and make a new building for Chadderton, exploring how they can make it stronger, stiffer and more stable. They have also worked:
- To explore a range of existing buildings in Chadderton.
- To design a new building for Chadderton based on a design criteria.
- To generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking and creating drawings of buildings in Chadderton.
- To select from and use a range of tools and equipment, to create a model of a building in Chadderton (for example cutting, shaping, joining and finishing).
- To select from and use a wide range of materials and components to create a new building in Chadderton (such as construction materials and junk modelling).
- To begin to measure and join materials, with some support
- To describe differences in materials
- To suggest ways to make material/product stronger
- To evaluate their ideas and products against a design criteria.
Creating our structures.
Our final models.
Spring 1
This half term the children in year 1 are going to be creating a moving space scene, they will be looking at mechanisms and practising creating a lever and slider to include. They will be working;
- To design a purposeful, functional and appealing space scene with moving parts, using levers and sliders to animate based on a design criterion.
- To generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups of their scene.
- To select from and use a range of tools and equipment (for example cutting, shaping, joining and finishing) to create a scene with a lever and slider.
- To select from and use a wide range of materials and components to create a space scene with a lever and slider.
- To explore and use mechanisms such as levers and sliders in their work.
- To evaluate their ideas and products against a design criterion.
Making a lever mechanism.
