Design and Technology

10 videos

Being Imaginative in the Forest

Using the catalyst of forest school, children are encouraged to be imaginative.

Learning from mistakes

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

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.

Design, make and evaluate

As learning partners begin construction, they select tools and materials.

Design: choosing resources

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

Design: Smoke Alarm

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

Design: Growth Mindset

The teacher encourages children to devise and make some sort of alarm.

Building a Forest School shelter

Children at a forest school are building a shelter.

Working scientifically: "We've done it"

There is a moment of complete delight as these learning partners construct their successful circuit.