Unit Planner: Can You Build a Robot? Year 6 1 Week

Unit planner: Can you build a robot? Year 6 1 Week

Lead Subjects: Literacy, Science, ICT 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 Writing Objective: Can you solve the mystery of the Huddle? Pupils should be taught to: Plan writing by identifying the audience and purpose of  Class reciprocal read of ‘the huddle’  Child discover the teachers have made robots to replace them the writing.  Un pick the vocabulary  Read the story again and find the clues that were missed Select the appropriate form and use similar writing as models.  Look for clues  Can you design your perfect teacher? Draft and write by selecting the appropriate grammar Objective: Can you make an electrical circuit? and vocabulary including that within English Appendix 2 Use organisational and presentational devices – sub-  Explore electricity and being safe with electricity  SMSC- look at alternatives to electricity and what life would be like without it headings, columns, tables or bullet points.  Learn about circuits and how different components work and can be  Draw circuits using the symbols Draft and write by linking ideas across paragraphs to changed – Buzzer, light bulb, motor, switches make writing flow.  Understand when a circuit would work and reasons they might be faulty. Evaluate and edit work using Purple Polishing Pens.  Make working circuits Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors. Objective: Can you design and make a robot? Science Research and generate ideas Make the robots using a circuit and range of materials Pupils should be taught to:   Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a  Design and make a prototype  Consider cost and effectiveness buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in thy3e Objective: Can you advertise your robot? circuit. Compare and give reasons for variations in how  Read persuasive adverts  Make an advert to persuade people to buy your robot components function.  Examine the features Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram. Pupil lead learning: ICT  Children work in groups to design, make, evaluate and advertise their  Can you get a bee bot to your chosen destination? Pupils should be taught to: robot based on their own ideas. Design and create a range of programs, systems and  Can you solve computer codes? content. Reflection: Create programs which use variables. Use variables, sequence, selection and repetition in  Children peer evaluate each other’s’ robots using a set criteria generated  Homework- Understand how key events and individuals in design and technology have shaped programs. the start if the unit. the world. Chose an invention and make it or a poster to show who invented it and how it has changed the world. Use logical reasoning to explain how increasingly complex  Consider what was successful and what could have been done differently 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: Literature: ICT: Assessment Opportunities:

 Persuasive  The Huddle  De Montfort University students working  Have the children made a working robot? at school  Non Fiction – Electricity  Can they draw an electrical circuit?  Coding games on the Ipads  Persuasive texts  Bee-bots  Can they   Eureka – non -fiction SATs text about inventors