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Design and build Star Carr or Skara Brae

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Stone Age to Iron Age Britain From hunter-gatherers to farmers

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Objectives

Design and Technology

  • Develop design criteria.
  • Select from and use a wide range of materials.
  • Build structures
  • Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.

English

  • Participate in discussion.

Lesson Planning

Build and evaluate a model of either Star Carr or Skara Brae.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To create success criteria for a model of Skara Brae and evaluate the model.
  • To discuss the success of the models of Skara Brae.

Children will:

  • Develop success criteria to rate a project.
  • Select the appropriate materials for the project and use a range of building techniques.
  • Evaluate their own and other's work based on success criteria.

You Will Need

  • Selection of materials to use: sticks of varying widths and lengths, straw, dry grass, pieces of leatherette, string, air-drying clay made into squared stone blocks as well as fresh clay.

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