Make a car

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Changes within Living Memory Transport

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Objectives

Design and Technology

Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks such as cutting, shaping, joining and finishing.
Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.

Science

Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made.
Describe the simple physical properties of everyday materials.
Identify and compare the suitability of everyday materials for particular uses.

Lesson Planning

Children understand how wheels work by turning on an axel and use this knowledge to make a car with turning wheels. Children evaluate their designs.

Teaching Outcomes
To create a car with wheels and axles.
To begin to understand how a wheel enables us to move a larger weight with less effort.

Children can:

Begin to understand how wheels work by turning on an axel.
Make a car from DT equipment with turning wheels.
Evaluate their designs.

Planning

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

Design and technology equipment to make wheels with axels: straws and card wheels or plastic bottle tops and dowel
Junk modelling equipment

Weblinks

How wheels and axles work together – YouTube clip