Primary design, engineering and technology resources

Such a fun lesson! As art of teaching microhabitats my class and I created one large bug hotel in our garden area, it could also be done in any forest area nearby, but the closer the better as you can visit and investigate the bugs and which environment they’re most drawn too. Included is a brief powerpoint encouraging the children with ideas of what it may look like and natural environments for different types of insects. I would send the parental letter out a week or two before so they can help out with the items needed. Enjoy!

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These are two projects that I have created to be used for Year 6 but could easily be used for the rest of Upper KS2. First project - Dragon’s Den Wraps - This is based around the topic of healthy eating where students must design and make a healthy wrap to present to Dragon’s Den. In the project students will explore packaging and design their own unique packaging for their wrap. They will look at nutrition and create their own unique wrap that will appeal to their choice of market. Second project: Renewable Energy - This is a project in which students will build their own working renewable energy models. (a different one each week based on a weekly 2 hour lesson) They will make models based on wind energy, hydo-power, solar power and electric power. All projects can be made from normal materials found in the classroom or at home. Only small solar cells and working motors needed for two of the models in this project.

Being a Designer means stepping out of your comfort zone and forgetting about your own preferences & needs. However, I have noticed that this is sometimes lost in classroom practice. Students are given a design brief or problem to solve, yet the final outcome is bias and based upon what THEY like and want. Students design something for themselves that they can take home and use - This resource prevents this from happening! 12 different consumer cards that are purposely written in a paragraphs, so that students can dissect the information, like a reading comprehension, pulling out the important facts that they need to know. This will show a detailed understanding. The cards include a range of people that have a variety of likes, needs and wants. This encourages students to choose a suitable consumer that is relevant to the problem that they have been asked to solve. (For example, if the problem is to design a product to help the elderly, then the Baby consumer profile card would not be suitable - Students should be expected to work this out after class discussion). Print on A4 or A3 paper and laminate!

**Literacy is a key ingredient to teaching that you expect to find in any classroom. The ‘Awesome Adjectives’ display is a bright and colourful resource that can be used in any subject area to support students with high level pieces of writing. ** This giant ‘describing words’ wall is great for students to refer to whenever they have to complete written analysis tasks. After a class discussion about the meanings of some of the describing words, students can start using them regularly in their writing - leading to the use of high level vocabulary. Print each page on A3 paper to create your display!

Its Sunday evening… you’ve already got the Monday morning blues and the last thing you want to do is mark a class set of books! What could improve the dreaded challenge ahead? …Fix-it Time Bookmarks! Guaranteed to half your marking time! These handy little bookmarks have been created as an alternative to whole class mark sheets. They are easily adaptable to suit any subject, year group or specific scheme of work. The ‘Fix-it Time’ (green) side of the bookmark includes ten commonly used student targets with letter codes, that can be written in pupil books, instead of the actual comment itself - ensuring faster marking time. There is also a star shaped target which is a ‘take it further’ activity, such as our challenge cards, aimed at high level learners. The ‘SPAG’ (purple) side of the bookmark, includes common subject specific spelling mistakes, punctuation and grammar reminders. Print double sided A4, laminate and reuse consistently with every class! This resource is fully editable via Microsoft PowerPoint

STEM Club activities based on the themes colour and fun. For each activity there is a lesson plan detailing all equipment and pre preparation needed and a method, a student instructions sheet and any other template/handouts needed with it Surface Tension Soap Making Slime Making Skittle Diffusion Red Cabbage Indicator Oobleck Chromatography Cards and Flowers Bath Bombs Straw Aeroplanes Paper Spinners Hovercrafts Boomerangs

This is a Medium Term plan for a series of Year 1 Design and Technology lessons in which they will investigate and evaluate existing models, then design, make and evaluate their own puppets. In this plan the topic was animals, but these lessons could be tailored to any puppets. It has always led to successful outcomes with the classes I have used it with.

This is a one hour lesson than can be used for all sets of pupils with the differentiated PowerPoint and worksheets. For the Higher ability students you should follow the HA link and Lower abilities follow the LA link on the slides. The worksheets are hand drawn by myself and then scanned in. The England Quiz is one I found. This lesson can be used over and over again every year and never need adapting.

A worksheet to guide students through designing an Anglo Saxon shield.

This unit of work provides resources and templates for creating a passion project. What is a passion project? A passion project provides an opportunity for students to integrate what they are passionate about in the classroom. Passion projects provide opportunity for student voice and choice and as a result focuses on fostering student strengths in the classroom. What does this Passion Project Planning Guide Include?? This planning guide is a 16 page editable and interactive PDF to guide you through the process of creating a passion project in your class and includes: Tips and guidelines for creating a passion project Assignment guidelines for a passion project and associated e-portfolio A Passion Project Unit Overview with 5 hyperlinked lesson plan lesson plan templates A Passion Project Rubric Template A Passion Project Planning Guide Template Curriculum Outcomes This project was initially created for a Grade 11 Communications Technology course. However, this project could be modified to be incorporated into any Key Stage 1-5 classes. This project would work particularly well for Key Stage 3, 4, and 5 English, History, Technology and Design, Math or Science course.

Art Project Pattern Art Leaves has 42 pages. Children from all grades just love Pattern Art. Instructions and Sample art work sheets included. Worksheets with different leaves and one blank worksheet included for those kids who would love to make their own leaves. Children may make patterns with colored sketch pens, glitter pens or also color or paint or stick materials using their own ideas and teacher’s guidance. Samples included are done by my students of Grade 3, 4 and 5. Art improves thinking ability :)