Design & Make a Toy Transporter
Added: 09 Nov 2020
Contributor:
PDST
Resource type:
Lesson Plan
Activity using the Design & Make process to make a Toy Transporter
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Materials
Strand unit: Materials and change
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify some materials that are waterproof
Strand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- describe and compare materials, noting the differences in colour, shape and texture
- identify and investigate materials that absorb water and those that are waterproof
Strand: Materials
Strand unit: Materials and change
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- examine the changes that take place in materials when physical forces are applied
- investigate the characteristics of different materials when wet and dry
Strand: Materials
Strand unit: Properties and characteristics of materials
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- group materials according to their properties and/or composition
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- compare and order objects according to length or height
- develop an understanding of the concept of lengt through exploration, discussion, and use of appropriate vocabulary
- estimate and measure length in non-standard units
- select and use appropriate non-standard units to measure length, width or height. Discuss reasons for choice
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record length using non-standard units
- estimate, measure and record length using metre and centimetre
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Money - Euro
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- solve and complete practical one-step and two-step problems and tasks involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication and simple division of money
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Money - Euro
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore and experiment with the properties and characteristics of materials in making structures
- make imaginative structures
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore and experiment with the properties and characteristics of materials in making structures
- make imaginative structures
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore and experiment with the properties and characteristics of materials in making structures
- make imaginative structures
Strand: Construction
Strand unit: Making Constructions
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore and experiment with the properties and characteristics of materials in making structures
- make imaginative structures
