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Football design

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Sports Tournaments History of Football

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Objectives

History

  • Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.

Design and Technology

  • Investigate and analyse a range of existing products.
  • Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have helped shape the world.

Science

  • Use test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests.
  • Report and present findings from enquiries including: conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results.

Lesson Planning

Investigate what footballs have been made of over the years, and what the standards for footballs are now. Test the school footballs against the FA's requirements.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • Investigate football design over the centuries.
  • Test footballs.

Children will:

  • Put sources in chronological order.
  • Describe how a designed object has developed over a long period.
  • Test a designed object.

You Will Need

  • School footballs
  • Football pumps with pressure gauges

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