Design and Technology Long Term Map

 

The national curriculum for D&T aims to ensure that all pupils:

Aims

The national curriculum for design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils:

  • develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
  • build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
  • critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
  • understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.

During years 1 & 2 pupils will be taught to use the following ….

 

During years 1 & 2 pupils will be taught to use the following ….

 

Design

  • design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria
  • generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through talking, drawing, templates, mock-ups and, where appropriate, information and communication technology

 

Make

  • select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks [for example, cutting, shaping, joining and finishing]
  • select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics

 

Evaluate

  • explore and evaluate a range of existing products
  • evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria

 

Technical knowledge

  • build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable
  • explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.

 

Cooking and nutrition

  • use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes

understand where food comes from.

 

Project

Cycle 1

NC

D&T

Coverage

Skills taught

Project

Cycle 2

NC

D&T

Coverage

Skills taught

Topic:

Memory Box

 

Purpose: Teddy Bears Picnic

 

Sandwich making

Subject Driver:

History

 

 

Cooking and Nutrition

 

·    Cut, mix, peel or grate ingredients safely and hygienically.

·      Measure or weigh using measuring cups or electronic scales.

·      Assemble or cook healthy ingredients. (with appropriate supervision)

·      Understand where food comes from, know it has to be farmed, grown at home or elsewhere or caught.

·      Understand how to name and sort foods into the five groups in ‘The Eat well plate.’

 

Topic:

Dinosaur Planet

Purpose: Puppet show

 

Finger and sock puppets

Subject Driver:

History

Textiles

·      To draw around a template onto fabric and cut out shapes

·      Join textiles/fabrics using a running stitch or glue

·      Decorate using a range of items (buttons, sequins, beads, ribbons)

 

Topic:

Superheroes

 

Purpose: Superhero day

 

Making masks

 

 

Subject Driver:

PE

Structures

 

·      Make a simple plan before beginning, developing ideas from initial starting points

·      Use sheet materials and construction tools with appropriate supervision to practise drilling, screwing, gluing and nailing. With support, cut strip wood/dowel using a hack saw

·      Discuss and practise simple strengthening techniques for products

·      Begin to build structures with some independence exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable. Join components of the structures using joining techniques.

·      Explore vocabulary here: Structure, Stable, Rigid

Topic:

Beats, Band and Boogie

 

Purpose: Recording music in a band

 

Instruments: Balloon drum and rubber band guitar

 

Subject Driver:

Music

Structures

 

·      Make a simple plan before beginning, developing ideas from initial starting points

·      Use sheet materials and construction tools with appropriate supervision to practise drilling, screwing, gluing and nailing. With support, cut strip wood/dowel using a hack saw

·      Discuss and practise simple strengthening techniques for products

·      Begin to build structures with some independence exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable. Join components of the structures using joining techniques.

·      Explore vocabulary here: Structure, Stable, Rigid

 

Topic: Paws, Claws and Whiskers

Subject driver:

Art and design

 

 

No D&T identified

Topic: Street detectives

Subject driver:

History

 

No D&T identified

Topic: Wriggle and Crawl

 

Purpose: Making Easter cards

 

Cards using sliders

 

 

 

Subject driver:

Science

 

 

Mechanisms

 

·      Know about movement of simple mechanisms such as levers, sliders, wheels and axels.

·      With some support, begin to explore and use simple mechanisms. e.g. use sliders in moving pictures or hinges into 2D or 3D models

·          Make vehicles with construction kits which contain free running wheels by attaching wheels to an axel using a chassis using a range of materials e.g. tubes, dowel and cotton reels

·          With some independence explore and use winding mechanisms

 

Topic:

Beach Combers

 

 

Subject Driver:

Science

 

No D&T identified

 

Topic: Land ahoy/Olympics

Subject driver:

Geography

No D&T identified

Topic:

The enchanted woodland

 

Purpose: Making a real life den

 

Howell Wood

Subject Driver:

Science

 

 

 

 

 

Structures

 

·      Make a simple plan before beginning, developing ideas from initial starting points

·      Use sheet materials and construction tools with appropriate supervision to practise drilling, screwing, gluing and nailing. With support, cut strip wood/dowel using a hack saw

·      Discuss and practise simple strengthening techniques for products

·      Begin to build structures with some independence exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable. Join components of the structures using joining techniques.

·      Explore vocabulary here: Structure, Stable, Rigid