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WS01 - Little pig's house

Technologies, Design and Technologies, Foundation Year

By the end of Foundation students identify familiar products, services and environments. They create a designed solution for a school-selected context. Students create, communicate and choose design ideas. They follow steps and use materials and equipment to safely make a designed solution.

Processes and production skills | Designing and making

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generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas, and use materials, equipment and steps to safely make a solution for a purpose

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1. Draws their design idea.

 

2. Describes materials and their properties.  

 

3. Evaluates their choice of material, using a smiley face scale. 

 

4. Reflects on the effectiveness of their chosen materials.  

 

5. Communicates ideas to improve on the finished house. (Note: This designed solution can be described as a built or constructed environment.)

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1. Creates a strong house to keep the 3 little pigs safe from the big bad wolf. (Note: the school-selected context for this designed solution is Engineering principles and systems; Materials and technologies specialisations.)

 

2. Uses available materials (magnetic tiles) to construct a house.

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Uses available equipment to construct a house for one of the 3 little pigs.

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Answers questions to justify the choice of materials used in their house's construction.

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Transcript

[Teacher] Ok, what material will your house be made of?

 

[Student] Magnets.

 

[Teacher] And why won’t the big bad wolf be able to blow your house down?

 

[Student] because it’s made of magnets.

 

[Teacher] And what do magnets do?

 

[Student] Stick.

 

[Teacher] Good work.