K’Nex Challenge2004/5

Humber Bridge2nd December 2004

David BowesCurriculum Project Manager for D&T

Tel: 01482 392496email: david.bowes@eastriding.gov.uk

SAT•Salutatory Assessment

of Teachers•Name the vehicle, designer and year

of manufacture

The Challenge

•Creativity & Suitability• Version 1

• Issues• Version 2

Learning is most effective when:

• Stimulus • Group interaction -Talking about

their design• Try and apply• Discuss, revise, refine & reshape• Share, evaluate & transfer

Avoiding Headaches!

• Co-ordination - ensuring progression

• IDEA• Investigation, Disassembly, Evaluation Activities

• FPT• Focussed Practical Task

• DMA• Design and Make Assignments

FPTs• Enhance pupils’ communication skills• Build letters• Pieces & ‘bonds’• Join:

• Together• At right angles• Fixed & Moving

• Geometric shapes (triangulate)• Mini challenges – height, area, volume.

Key Features• Shell & Frame structures• Bracing• Stability• Force and Load• Begin to evaluate effectiveness

Progression Content Y3-4• Joining strip material to make simple frame

structures e.g. dowel, square section timber, kit parts, artstraws, folded or rolled card and paper.

• Use of card triangle joints to join square section timber.

• Simple ways to join artstraws.• Investigating how to increase the strength of

frames by the addition of triangles.

Progression Content Y5-6• Building and testing more complex frame

structures from materials such as rolled paper and / or artstraws.

• Introduction of a wider range of joining techniques. (photo)

• Investigating packaging to see how the net has been designed and which measures have been taken to protect the contents.

Create and use programmes to:• Build a traffic light / pelican

crossing• Make a lighthouse• Create a burglar alarm• Control a fairground ride or

automated vehicle

Assessment

• Original• Modified

Additional Resources

• ‘Pods’ (500g weights)• Sheet Materials• Success criteria• Test ramp & surface• Extension activities

• Motors, bulbs, ‘control’, etc

• Extra K’Nex