Year 1 Design and Technology
National Curriculum Requirements for Year 1
- I use my own ideas to make something
- I decribe how something works
- I cut food safely
- I make a product which moves
- I make my model stronger
- I explain to someone else how I make my product
- I choose appropriate resources and tools
- I make a simple plan before making
Topic : The Big Build
Learning Outcomes / Pupils will :
- research suitable designs and practise making a structure
- investigate the most effective way of joining materials
- join and make a picture frame
- construct a suitable house for 'The Three Little Pigs'
- make a frame or shell house for the three pigs
- incorporate a secret trap with a hinge mechanism
Topic : Let's Celebrate
Learning Outcomes / Pupils will :
- learn how to make a jelly and identifyways to make a jelly more delicious / healthy / visually appealing
- generate lists of fruits, juices and flavoured jelly which they prefer and explain their preferences
- pracirsed making different flavoured jellies, combined different flavoured jellies, combined different fruits and explored using different shaped jelly moulds in order to research their preferences.
Topic : Animal Allsorts