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How Fast Should Your Buggy Be?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a controllable, battery-powered toy vehicle using card, wood, found materials, mechanical and electrical components.
The toy created can be based on an actual vehicle, on a vehicle from a book or film, or...
How frequent are earthquakes
In this activity students use functions and graphs to model a relationship between the magnitude of earthquakes and how...
How much will it cost?
In this resource students are asked to measure dimensions from scale drawings and find the areas of rectangles and triangles. They then calculate the amount of paint needed to paint a house and its cost.
The resource is part of the Nuffield Maths Level 1 Foundation resource collection.
How Scary Should a Calendar Be?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology materials in which students design and make a calendar illustrated with monsters, one for each month of the year. Each monster is designed and produced by a team of children using suitable computer software. The calendar must be made to...
How Should Your Puppets Tell Their Story?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students in groups write a short story with a message before designing and making the puppets and theatre that can be used to tell the story.
Planning the production is an important part of the activity, with the performance as...
How to Build a Pond
This resource, from Nuffield Foundation, is an example of how mathematics can arise naturally from a school activity and contains the work of students who attended Lady Margaret Junior School in 1967.
The development of their project to build a pond is described in detail by the class teacher, who recognised...
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How Will You Store Your Favourite Things?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a container that can hold one or two favourite small items safely.
Students identify one, or a few, small items that are precious and to make a suitable 'treasure' box. From its appearance, the container...
How Will Your Beast Open Its Mouth?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make an animal with a moving mouth.
Children study their own mouth and head movements and those of animals before designing their animal's mouth. The mechanisms used by the children are restricted to a...
How Will Your Roly Poly Move?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students design and make a simple push-along toy (a roly poly) using a mixture of found materials, paper and card.
The toy should be designed to provide amusement in both its appearance and the ways it moves. It may be for the...