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Get designing with the Gladiators!

Ever wanted to be an inventor? Work as a class to learn about how the micro:bit works, researching and drawing design ideas, and collaborating to improve an idea.

These activities will guide you towards a valid competition entry once completed. Click the links below to be taken to the lesson plans and student worksheets.

Curriculum covered

England: Design and Technology (KS2)

Pupils should be taught to:

• Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, and appealing products that are fit for purpose, aimed at particular individuals or groups.
• Generate, develop, model, and communicate ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross-sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer-aided design.
• Evaluate their ideas and products against their own design criteria and consider the views of others to improve their work.

Scotland: Technologies (Second Level)

• TCH 2-05a: Investigate how product design has been influenced by changing lifestyles.
• TCH 2-11a: Use graphic techniques, manually and digitally, to communicate ideas, experimenting with shape, colour, and texture.
• TCH 2-12a: I can extend knowledge and understanding of engineering disciplines to create solutions.

Wales: Curriculum for Wales (Progression Step 3)

• I can creatively respond to the needs and wants of the user, based on the context and on the information collected.
• I can identify and consider factors when developing design proposals.
• I can use design communication methods to develop and present ideas and respond to feedback.
• I can consider how my design proposals will solve problems and how this may affect the environment.
• I can use design thinking to test and refine my design decisions without fear of failure.

Northern Ireland: The World Around Us (KS2)

• Pupils will be able to understand how knowledge in science supports technological inventions.
• Develop ideas and make models using labelled diagrams.

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