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Wacky Windmills - The Complete Series (6 lessons)

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SKU D12CS30001
Key Stage 1 Mechanisms and Mechanical Systems StructuresDesign & TechnologyYear 1Year 2

Visit a variety of windmills around the world and encourage them to get their builder hats on with this 'Wacky Windmills' scheme of work for Year 1 and 2. Your class will explore different ways of making windmill bases and sails with classroom and craft materials, learning how to join materials together and make axles allowing sails to spin in the wind. They can then design, make and evaluate their own wacky windmill!

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With lesson plans, informative and engaging slides, step-by-step instructions, differentiated worksheets and much more, this DT scheme of work is all you need to get your class building and testing model windmills.

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Sarah

Matches curriculum content completely. Resources are brilliantly differentiated. Saved me hours and hours of hard work

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Catherine Still

Well planned, geared to both year groups. Worksheets are attractive and the children find them easy to follow on the whole. (Worksheet 1a - the Brill windmill - could you have different dot patterns for lines to be folded and lines to be cut? We had to start again in quite a few cases!)