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Lesson Four – Joining Materials

This design technology teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to explore and test different ways of joining materials to use as part of a Punch and Judy puppet. The class can explain how each of the materials can be fastened together to produce different parts of a puppet character.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and text different ways of joining materials to use as part of a Punch and Judy puppet

Learning Objectives

Select tools, techniques and materials for making their product. Assemble, join and combine materials and components.

Learning Outcomes

I can identify materials that have been used to make a specific product. I can identify different ways to join materials.

Joining Materials

Teaching sequence to help the children explore and text different ways of joining materials to use as part of a Punch and Judy puppet

Puppets

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe some of the different materials that have been used to make a puppet

Materials Checklist

Activity to help the children select and record different materials that can be joined together using a range of fastenings

Joining Materials

Interactive activity to help the children explore and text different ways of joining materials to use as part of a Punch and Judy puppet

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and text different ways of joining materials to use as part of a Punch and Judy puppet

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