Design Technology - Temple Marble Run (Upper Key Stage 2)

Temple Marble Run is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 9-11.
Design Brief: Design and make a prototype Marble Run toy based on a temple theme for the MAGIC toy company.

The package provides the medium-term plan, six lessons (each lesson has a MS Powerpoint presentation). Any additional resources are provided as PDFs or as Powerpoint Presentations. This unit of work fulfils the National Curriculum (England) Design Technology requirements for this age group in the following strands of learning:

• Materials
• Structures
  In this project children design and make a prototype Marble Run game. This is an opportunity for children to consolidate and demonstrate their understanding of structures and in particular different techniques used to make structures stronger, stiffer, and more stable. Children deepen their understanding of designing a product around a central theme and the use of a mood board to develop their ideas. When making the Marble Run toy they will need to try out and test out their ideas to ensure that the Marble Run functions as it should. This project introduces the idea that designers make models and prototypes as part of the design process and use these models to inform the final design.

Sessions:

1. IDEA Task 1 What is a Marble Run? & IDEA Task 2 Creating Tall Towers
2. Focused Practical Task 1 – Columns and Sliders
3. DME: Introducing the Marble Run Project
4. DME: Developing the Design
5. DME: Making the Marble Run Toy
6. DME: Evaluation Session