Skills taught:

• Considering a range of factors in their design criteria.

• Using a template to mark and cut out a design.

• Using a running stitch to join fabric to make a functional item.

• Attaching a secure fastening, as well as decorative objects.

• Evaluating their final product.

Skills that will be taught:

• Incorporating key information from a client’s design request such as ‘multifunctional’ and ‘compact’ in their design brief.

• Writing a program that displays an arrow to indicate cardinal compass directions with an ‘On start’ loading screen.

• Identifying errors (bugs) in the code and suggesting ways to fix (debug) them.

• Self and peer evaluating a product concept against a list of design criteria with basic statements.

• Identifying key industries that use 3D CAD modelling and why.

• Recalling and describing the name and use of key tools used in Tinkercad (CAD) software.

• Combining more than one object to develop a finished 3D CAD model in Tinkercad.

• Completing a product pitch plan that includes key information.

Skills that will be taught:

• Explaining simply what is meant by ‘form’ (the shape of a product) and ‘function’ (how a product works).

• Stating what they like or dislike about an existing children’s toy and why.

• Learning about skills developed through play and applying this knowledge in a survey of one or more children’s toys.

• Identifying the components of a steady hand game.

• Designing a steady hand game of their own according to their design criteria, using four different perspective drawings.

• Creating a secure base for their game, with neat edges, that relates to their design.

• Making and testing a functioning circuit and assembling it within a case.