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Unit planner: Can you build a robot?
Lead Subjects: Literacy, Science, ICT
Writing
Pupils should be taught to:
Plan writing by identifying the audience and purpose of the writing.
Select the appropriate form and use similar writing as models.
Draft and write by selecting the appropriate grammar and
vocabulary including that within English Appendix 2
Use organisational and presentational devices – sub-headings,
columns, tables or bullet points.
Draft and write by linking ideas across paragraphs to make writing
flow.
Evaluate and edit work using Purple Polishing Pens.
Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors.
Science
Pupils should be taught to:
Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with
the number and voltage of cells used in thy3e circuit.
Compare and give reasons for variations in how components
function.
Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a
diagram.
ICT
Pupils should be taught to:
Design and create a range of programs, systems and content.
Create programs which use variables.
Use variables, sequence, selection and repetition in programs.
Use logical reasoning to explain how increasingly complex
algorithms work and to detect and correct errors.
SMSC
Pupils should be taught to:
Investigate moral values and ethical issues
D and T
Pupils should be taught to:
Use research and develop design criteria to inform a design.
Select from and use a wide range of tools and equipment.
Select and use from a wide range of materials.
Evaluate their design and product.
Text types:
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Persuasive
Year 6
1 Week
Starter: Read the story ‘The Huddle’ and Visit from DMU and Video of Ms Virk in the robot suit.
Outcome: Children make and evaluate a moving robot
Objective: Can you solve the mystery of the Huddle?
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Class reciprocal read of ‘the huddle’
Un pick the vocabulary
Look for clues
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Child discover the teachers have made robots to replace them
Read the story again and find the clues that were missed
Can you design your perfect teacher?
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SMSC- look at alternatives to electricity and what life would be like without it
Draw circuits using the symbols
Understand when a circuit would work and reasons they might be faulty.
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Make the robots using a circuit and range of materials
Consider cost and effectiveness
Objective: Can you make an electrical circuit?
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Explore electricity and being safe with electricity
Learn about circuits and how different components work and
can be changed – Buzzer, light bulb, motor, switches
Make working circuits
Objective: Can you design and make a robot?
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Research and generate ideas
Design and make a prototype
Objective: Can you advertise your robot?
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Read persuasive adverts
Examine the features
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Make an advert to persuade people to buy your robot
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Can you get a bee bot to your chosen destination?
Can you solve computer codes?
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Homework- Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have shaped
the world. Chose an invention and make it or a poster to show who invented it and how it has
changed the world.
Pupil lead learning:
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Children work in groups to design, make, evaluate and advertise
their robot based on their own ideas.
Reflection:
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Children peer evaluate each other’s’ robots using a set criteria
generated the start if the unit.
Consider what was successful and what could have been done
differently
Literature:
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The Huddle
Non Fiction – Electricity
Persuasive texts
Eureka – non -fiction SATs text about
inventors
ICT:
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De Montfort University students working
at school
Coding games on the Ipads
Bee-bots
Assessment Opportunities:
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Have the children made a working robot?
Can they draw an electrical circuit?
Can they