Design Technology - General Ideas
- Make Salt Dough - Make salt dough with your class, using these handy tips.
- Inventions - Give a group of children a bag of materials and get them to create something using all of the contents.
- Design your Classroom - Design a new layout for your classroom (and perhaps try out some of them, to evaluate their effectiveness).
- Weaving with Lolly Sticks - Try weaving with wool and lolly sticks! The technique is very easy to master and your children will love making lots of their own original designs.
- Newspaper Creations - Create realistic looking structures or objects using only newspaper.
- Object of the Day - Each day, look at an everyday object in relation to how it was designed and made.
- Hand Drills Display Text
- A set of display letters, spelling the text 'Hand Drills' using images of hand drills! Contributed by Rachel Simpson. - Kite Template - A template which allows you to make your own kite. Contributed by Play Pause Unwind.
- Instrument
Evaluation -
A PDF worksheet, which children can use to evaluate different
instruments (as part of the QCA DT unit on Musical Instuments).
Contributed by Jane Robinson.
- Musical
Instruments -
A complete workbook (PDF) which will help children as they work
through the QCA unit on making musical instruments. Contributed
by Gaynor Hart.
- Roamer Shopping - A great idea for making a scenario in which to use a roamer.
- The Biscuit Business - Let groups of children set up their own biscuit businesses! Who will make the most profit?
- Biscuit
Evaluation
-
After making biscuits, ask your children to complete this evaluation
form, to reflect on their work. Contributed by Lorrie Parsons. - Making Kites - An outline of the benefits of making kites with your class.
- Build a Bridge - Group activity, in which children have to make a bridge, despite a number of restrictions.
- Design a Package - Get the children to look closely at packaging, and then design their own.
- Using Levers - Some creative ideas for using levers and scissor mechanisms in your lessons.
- Word Challenge
- Find as many hidden words as you can and define the DT keyword. Contributed by Adam Belcher. - Anagram Challenge - Can you work out the DT words that are hidden in these anagrams? Contributed by Adam Belcher.
- Matrix Challenge - Find a DT keyword hidden in the matrix. Contributed by Adam Belcher.
- Lego Challenge - Use Lego pieces to solve this challenge. Contributed by Adam Belcher.
- Triangle Challenge - How many triangles can you find in the picture? Contributed by Adam Belcher.
- Scrabble Challenge - Use the letters to make different words. Can you find the special DT word? Contributed by Adam Belcher.
Give children a chance to practise their scissor skills by asking them to carefully and accurately cut out the shapes on these sheets.
 Easter Cutting Skills |
