Moving Pictures

These fun-filled KS1 Design and Technology 'Moving Pictures' lesson plans for Year 1 will get their imaginations soaring as they think up exciting and inventive ways to bring their pictures to life through a variety of moving mechanisms. They will explore sliders, levers, pivots and wheel mechanisms and how they can be used to make different parts of a picture move.

With lesson plans, informative slides for the teaching input, differentiated worksheets, Help Sheets and much, much more, these Year 1 'Moving Pictures' lessons provide everything you need to teach this exciting and creative scheme of work.

Sliding Mechanisms

The first lesson in this series starts by giving your class the chance to look at a variety of storybooks that have moving parts before they go on to explore ways of using sliders to move objects around the page and to make objects appear and disappear.

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Levers and Pivots

This lesson teaches your class about levers and pivots and the different ways in which levers can be used in moving pictures. It then gives your class the chance to explore some of these levers for themselves.

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Wheel Mechanisms

This lesson investigates how wheels can be used in moving pictures in different ways before giving your class the fun task of exploring for themselves how to use wheel mechanisms to make certain parts of a picture move.

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Plan and Design

This lesson allows your class to consolidate all they have learnt about moving mechanisms so that they can design their own moving pictures. With helpful hints and picture ideas, they are sure to come up with some inspiring and creative ideas!

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Making Moving Pictures

Your class will follow their designs in this lesson to make their very own moving pictures! They can put all their knowledge to the test as they use sliders, levers, pivots and wheel mechanisms to create fabulous pictures that move.

Please note that, due to the practical nature of this lesson, worksheets are not necessary and, therefore are not included.

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Evaluation

The final lesson in this series gives your class the opportunity to show off their finished moving pictures as they share their work with the rest of the class and evaluate their own and others' finished products.

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