Mechanisms
Year 1 - DT- Autumn 1 and 2
Embedded Files
Core Learning
Core Learning
Design and make a moving storybook
Design
• Explaining how to adapt mechanisms, using bridges or guides to control the movement.
• Designing a moving story book for a given audience.
Make
• Following a design to create moving models that use levers and sliders.
Evaluate
• Testing a finished product, seeing whether it moves as planned and, if not, explaining why and how it can be fixed.
• Reviewing the success of a product by testing it with its intended audience.
Technical Knowledge
• To know that a mechanism is the parts of an object that move together.
• To know that a slider mechanism moves an object from side to side.
• To know that a slider mechanism has a slider, slots and guides and an object.
• To know that bridges and guides are bits of card that purposefully restrict the movement of the slider.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Slider
Mechanism
Adapt
Design criteria
Model
Template
Assemble
Test
What came before?
What came before?
In Reception, the children designed and made sliding Santa cards for Christmas.
What comes after?
What comes after?
In Year 2, the children will use linkages to design and make a moving monster.
Useful Resources
Useful Resources
Y1-Mechanisms-Moving Story Book.pdfPage updated
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