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Portal Design: Electric Toys
Year 6 Term 2A
BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool
Year 6 Term 2A
CONTEXT
Designers
BROADENING EXPERIENCE
No visit
CLASS READER
The Other of Side Truth
Oracy Development Opportunities
ENGLISH
Focus Narrative:
Issues and dilemma stories
Key Text/Stimulus:
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
Focus Non-Narrative:
Persuasive Writing
Key Text/Stimulus:
DT - Toys and Games
Curriculum support genres:
Instructions
Advert
Hot-seating as characters
Freeze frame
Conscience alley
Persuasion
ART
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Artist:
No focus
Medium:
No focus
RE
Northumberland Agreed Syllabus
Unit U2.7 Why do Hindus want to be good?
Group discussions/debate
HISTORY
National Curriculum:
No focus
Content:
No focus
GEOGRAPHY
National Curriculum:
No focus
DT
National Curriculum:
Focus objectives:
DESIGN OBJECTIVES
MAKE OBJECTIVES
EVALUATE OBJECTIVES
understand and use electrical systems in their products[series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors]
Giving instructions, Explanations, feedback, surveys
Content:
Design and make electrical toy or game.
Circuits
Product research
Product design
Switches, buzzers and bulbs
Testing and feedback
SCIENCE
National Curriculum:
Electricity
associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit
compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches
use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram
Discussions, Sharing ideas/views
WOW! Practical Introduction
Does wire length affect how components in a circuit work?
Give the children a selection of electrical components:Electrical wires with crocodile clips (need a selection of short and long wires) Bulbs Bulb Holders Batteries Battery Holders (single and double) Buzzers Motors Switches.Set the children the challenge of making a circuit and then creating an investigation to answer the scientific question.