Lesson Planning
Key Stage 1 Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK
Inventors - NEW LOOK
Meet the Wright Brothers and Leonardo da Vinci; discuss and order their inventions on a timeline. Start to ask ‘inventor questions’ that lead to inventions. Create technical drawings, design and build models and write tenders in role as inventors. Children present their inventions to the class.
Session 1 Questions and Inventions
Objectives
History
- Understand what an invention is and how/why people create inventions.
- Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.
Enquiry question
How do ideas turn into inventions?
Outcomes
Children will:
- Match ‘inventor questions’ to actual inventions.
- Create an inventors/ inventions timeline.
- Explore the personality traits of successful inventors.
Provided Resources
You Will Need
Scissors
String
Pegs
Session 2 Perfect Parachute
Objectives
History
- Learn about significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements: Leonardo da Vinci.
- Design, make and evaluate parachutes.
Enquiry question
What is the perfect parachute?
Outcomes
Children will:
- Learn about some of Leonardo da Vinci’s flying inventions.
- Make a parachute inspired by Leonardo’s design and an alternative parachute.
- Compare two parachutes.
Lesson Planning
Provided Resources
You Will Need
Different sized sheets of paper
A range of ‘junk’ resources (e.g. plastic bags, plastic pots/containers)
Scissors; String; Tape
Small plastic figures / small weights.
Session 3 Glorious Gliders – The Wright Brothers
Objectives
History
- Learn about the lives of the Wright brothers.
- Make, adapt and test a paper glider.
Enquiry question
Which paper glider will travel the furthest?
Outcomes
Children will:
- Understand the Wright brothers were important aviators.
- Make a range of different paper gliders.
- Adapt the design of a paper glider and compare how far they can travel.
Lesson Planning
Provided Resources
You Will Need
A4 paper
Scissors
Rulers
Paper clips
Measuring tape
Session 4 Powered Transport – elastic band vehicles
Objectives
History
- Explore historic engines/mechanisms that make things move.
- To design and make a mode of transport using a simple ‘stored energy’ (elastic band) mechanism.
Enquiry question
Why do vehicles move?
Outcomes
Children will:
- Know that to make a vehicle move, it needs a source of power.
- Identify different sources of power that make vehicles move.
- Design and make a vehicle that moves using the power from an elastic band.
Lesson Planning
Provided Resources
You Will Need
A selection of small world vehicles
Rubber bands; scissors; marker pens; rulers
Corrugated card
Duct tape
Old/blank CDs
Thin wooden skewers
Styrofoam/modelling clay
A range of ‘junk’ resources (e.g. plastic pots, straws)
Various types of fixing (e.g. tape, staples, paperclips, split pins, glue, string)
Paints and brushes
Weblinks
How to make a rubber band boat from livingonthecheap.com
Session 5 New Inventions
Objectives
History
- Create a technical drawing.
- Design, make and present a new invention.
Enquiry question
What could I invent?
Outcomes
Children will:
- Complete a technical drawing of a new invention.
- Create a prototype of a new invention.
- Present a new invention to the Headteacher/peers.
Lesson Planning
Provided Resources
You Will Need
Drawing equipment - including 2B pencils and good-quality paper
Range of ‘junk’ resources (e.g. plastic pots, straws)
Various types of fixing (e.g. tape, staples, paperclips, split pins, glue, string)