Design and Technology
10 videos

Fieldwork in the school grounds
Children make decisions and evaluate their designs for a forest school.

Design and make
Very efffective learning partners engage in a design and make exercise to create a smoke alarm.

Learning from mistakes
Less focussed on outcomes than process, this teacher believes that learning from mistakes helps to build resilience a...

Working scientifically: "We've done it"
There is a moment of complete delight as these learning partners construct their successful circuit.

Design: Smoke Alarm
Encouraging thinking skills and growth mindset, this sequence links a design and make acivity to a whoe term class pr...

Design: choosing resources
Prior to a design and make activity to make as smoke alarm, the teachers shows the class possible resoucres.

Being Imaginative in the Forest
Using the catalyst of forest school, children are encouraged to be imaginative.