Pencil Cases

This series of six Design and Technology lesson plans, teaching ideas and resources will support your class in making their very own pencil cases! They will think about different materials used to make pencil cases and the different ways they are opened and closed. Your class will learn how to use a variety of stitches including running stitch, whip stitch and back stitch, as well as how to decorate their pencil case creations!

Containing detailed lesson plans, engaging slides, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printables, these DT 'Pencil Cases' lessons for Year 3/4 are a great way to get your class excited about working with textiles and will leave them with a beautiful and handy product at the end of it all!

A Knowledge Organiser is included in the Complete Series download, or can be purchased separately.

Investigating

In this first lesson, children will examine and describe a variety of pencil cases, identifying the key features and discussing the purpose of these features. Children will further analyse a range of pencil cases in their independent activities.

This lesson comes with an easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your class in their independent work.

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Sewing Stitches

In this practical lesson, children will learn about a variety of hand-sewing stitches (running stitch, whipstitch and backstitch), then practise joining pieces of scrap material using different hand-sewing stitches.

Everything you need is here - a step-by-step lesson plan, PDF slides for your teaching input, engaging activity ideas for all abilities and printable resources to guide your class through independent learning.

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Fastenings

Children will learn how zips, buttons, poppers and toggles may be used to fasten pencil cases. In their independent activities, they either practise sewing buttons and button holes, or sewing and attaching toggles and loops.

This comprehensive lesson pack contains a detailed plan, PDF teaching slides, differentiated task suggestions and printable materials for independent classroom activities.

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Decorating Techniques

Children will consider ways in which sewing patterns, and fastening of other materials and embellishments by sewing, may make a product design more attractive. They will then practise decorative sewing methods.

This lesson comes with a detailed plan, an engaging set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources.

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Designing

In this lesson, children will draw and annotate a design for a pencil case, taking into consideration some given limitations, and thinking about how it may be decorated.

Everything you need is here - a step-by-step lesson plan, PDF slides for your teaching input, engaging activity ideas for all abilities and printable resources to guide your class through independent learning.

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Making and Evaluating

In the final lesson of this series, your class will follow their designs to make their pencil cases, and then evaluate them against the agreed success criteria.

This comprehensive lesson pack contains a detailed plan, PDF teaching slides, differentiated task suggestions and printable materials for independent classroom activities.

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This Year 3/4 Design and Technology Knowledge Organiser has been created to complement our Textiles strand. It is designed to support your children’s understanding of key vocabulary and techniques linked to this scheme of work. Key questions and relevant technical skills have been identified to encourage children to apply their knowledge around this topic.

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