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Object of the Day
Subject: Design and Technology
Age Range: 5 to 11

This activity gets children thinking about everyday objects. These can be objects found in the classroom, strange and unusual objects you have collected, or objects which the children bring in from home.

1) Choose an object.

2) During a spare moment during the day, take some time to discuss and look closely at the object. Pass it around the classroom and get the children to examine it closely.

3) Talk about the following things in relation to the object:

Depending on the object, and with the owner's permission, the children could take apart the object, in order to look more closely at it. The children could also be set some extra work based on this activity, i.e. designing a object which does the same job.


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