Turn your classroom into a toy workshop with this series of Moving Toys KS2 lessons for Year 5 as your class investigate cam mechanisms and toys that contain them. Discover how different shaped cams can alter the movement of the follower and how to create a sturdy structure using a variety of tools and techniques. Your toymakers will then have the chance to design, make and evaluate their own moving toy with a cam mechanism.
With easy-to-follow lesson plans, slideshows for each of the teaching inputs, differentiated activity ideas, worksheets and other printable resources, these Year 5 Moving Toys KS2 DT lessons provide everything you need to teach this fun and creative scheme of work...without the need for you to spend hours of your own time planning!
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