Domestic machine detective: past and present

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory A Day in the Life

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History

Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
Learn about changes in living memory.
Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Design and Technology

Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.
Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology.

Children look at differences in domestic machine technologies over time, and then invent an alarm clock for the future.

Teaching Outcomes
To investigate, and order chronologically, images of technology from different eras.
To design an alarm clock of the future.

Children will:

Complete a detective challenge placing images and descriptions of machines in the correct order.
Design an alarm clock of the future after exploring techniques for waking up in the past.

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