National Curriculum Content

• 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.

Lesson Objectives

1. Investigate how Vikings used art.
2. Design and create a 3D dragon using cylinders.
3. Add wings and spines using cardboard attachments.

What we want children to know

• Use tools safely and accurately.
• Assemble components to make working models.

What skills we want children to develop

• Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams.
• Plan the order of their work, choosing appropriate materials, tools and techniques.
• Construct products using permanent joining techniques.
• Confidently select appropriate tools, materials, components and techniques and use them.
• Identify the strengths and areas for development in their ideas and products.

Vocabulary

Cardboard attachment, L-brace, flange, cylinder