Knowledge

• Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes.
• Understand where food comes from.
• Build structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.
• Explore and use mechanisms [for example, levers, sliders, wheels and axles], in their products.
• Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.
• Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.
• Select from and use a range of tools and equipment to perform practical tasks.
• Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.

Project

• Eggy Challenge: Parachute Drop - The Pupils will use parachutes they have designed to slow the descent of an egg when dropped from a high point.