Designing at Key Stage One
This collection includes eight primary solutions units of work developed by the Nuffield Foundation to support Key Stage One: Years One to Two (Five to Seven years).
Each unit within this collection includes lesson by lesson teaching guidance, a listing of new vocabulary, a description of links to other subjects and full details of resource requirements.
The units of work for Key Stage One take from four to five-and-a-half hours to complete.
Full colour and greyscale versions of the resources are available to download.
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Which Parts of Your Picture Should Move?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students design and make a moving picture that tells a nursery rhyme or a simple story, using paper, card, found pictures, found materials and paper fasteners. The activity allows students to produce the picture and it can be extended into other curriculum…
What Can You Learn from a Textile Tree?
In this unit from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology, students design and make a simple tree structure using a variety of textiles, paper and card. The unit allows students to handle and experience a variety of textiles and relate them to their everday uses. They make textile sample cards to hang on the tree…
Which Fruits Would Be Good in Your Salad?
In this unit from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology, students design and make a bowl of fruit salad to share with the other children in the class. Students need to consider the look, feel and taste of the fruit salad so that it matches the requirements of the group, as revealed by their own research and recorded…
How Scary Should a Calendar Be?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology materials in which students design and make a calendar illustrated with monsters, one for each month of the year. Each monster is designed and produced by a team of children using suitable computer software. The calendar must be made to meet the preferences…
How Do You Like Your Toast?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, students write a specification for toast that meets the identified preferences of a particular person. They then make a serving of toast to that specification. The task can be widened to include the development of a production system for…
What Should Be Stuck to Your Fridge?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which students design a fridge magnet set that will appeal to young children. The fridge magnets are made from layers, which add considerably to their attractiveness, and are used to hold up a list of commonly mis-spelt words. Each table or group…
How Will Your Roly Poly Move?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students design and make a simple push-along toy (a roly poly) using a mixture of found materials, paper and card. The toy should be designed to provide amusement in both its appearance and the ways it moves. It may be for the students themselves or…
Should Your Software Speak?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which students produce a multimedia presentation using software they are familiar with from previous ICT lesson time. The presentation content must first be researched and the presentation itself needs to be attractive and easy to use. It should…
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