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Technologies Year 1 Year 2 Knowledge and understanding Technologies

Identify how familiar products, services and environments are designed and produced by people to meet personal or local community needs and sustainability

Code AC9TDE2K01

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18 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2

    Technologies Unit: Let It Roll

    This five-lesson Design and Technologies unit guides students through an engaging design process as they explore how toys move. Students tes...

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  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: Building Bridges

    This activity is a quick engineering challenge that your students will love! It can be completed in a single session with minimal materials....

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  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    STEAM Unit: What is a Hovercraft?

    This activity kit, designed to be used in conjunction with our ‘What is a Hovercraft Presentation’ teaches your students the story of the ho...

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  • Presentation Year: F 1 2

    Let It Roll Presentation

    This five-lesson presentation supports a hands-on Technologies unit where students explore how toys are designed to move. Through observatio...

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  • Presentation Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    Building Bridges - Presentation

    This presentation is designed to accompany the STEM activity of the same name. It walks students through the human history of bridge buildin...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Let It Roll - Assessment Rubric

    This assessment rubric supports the Let It Roll Design and Technologies unit. Teachers can assess student achievement against key learning o...

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  • Resource Year: 1 2

    Let It Roll - Quiz

    This 10-question interactive quiz is the perfect way to review key learning from the Let It Roll unit. Covering concepts such as materials,...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Let It Roll Assessment

    This end-of-unit assessment sheet allows students to reflect on the outcomes of their rolling toy project. It includes sections on testing p...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Building Checklist & Design Reflection

    These differentiated Building Checklists and companion Design Reflection Sheet help students stay organised throughout the construction and...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Design Sheet - Rolling Toy

    This open-ended Design Sheet encourages students to draw and label their rolling toy creations. It offers a clean, simplified layout perfect...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Rolling Toy Design Sheet

    These differentiated Rolling Toy Design Sheets support students in visualising and planning their toy designs for the Let It Roll unit. Each...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Group Planning Sheet

    These differentiated Group Planning Sheets support students as they collaboratively plan their rolling toy designs. Each version provides st...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    Material Match

    The Material Match worksheet guides students through an investigation of wheel materials and how they perform on different surfaces. Student...

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  • Worksheet Year: 1 2

    How Do Toys Move?

    This structured observation worksheet supports students in exploring the different ways toys move. By testing a range of toy types, students...

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  • Unit Plan Year: F 1 2 3 +3

    What is a Hovercraft? - Presentation

    The story of the hovercraft is a story of designing solutions to real-world problems and how the limits of technology can impact design.  I...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    The Importance Of Recycling

    Students are asked to reflect on the importance of recycling through either writing or drawing. This worksheet was designed to be used with...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2 6

    (Re)Making Paper - Teacher Sheet

    This teacher sheet outline the instructions for a recycling activity where students turn scrap paper into beautiful, handmade paper bookmark...

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  • Worksheet Year: F 1 2

    Materials Scavenger Hunt

    Students set off around the classroom or playground in search of examples of each category of material. This worksheet can be done as a comp...

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