Carousel Education provides high quality bespoke support that addresses current educational challenges and practices. Our vision is to enable school leaders and staff to provide the best possible outcomes for all their children. In addition to our resources, we aim to offer down to earth, interactive, innovative and practical solutions for school leaders.
Carousel Education provides high quality bespoke support that addresses current educational challenges and practices. Our vision is to enable school leaders and staff to provide the best possible outcomes for all their children. In addition to our resources, we aim to offer down to earth, interactive, innovative and practical solutions for school leaders.
In this project, children apply their knowledge of cooking and nutrition to design and make a three-course meal to be served as an airline meal. Children will learn that an airline meal can be a three-course meal and that airlines often serve meals that reflect their countries culture and cuisine. They will understand the term eco-friendly and some of the ways food production can be more eco-friendly including fairtrade food, locally sourced food and organic farming. They will apply these principles when designing and making a three-course meal for an eco-friendly airline. When designing their meals, they consider menus that might be suitable for vegetarians, vegans and people who may have food allergies and intolerances. As part of the evaluation process, they organise a taste test and design the airline menu card for the food they have created that explains why the three-course meal is healthy and balanced and why it is eco-friendly.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1 – Eating in, Eating Out & IDEA Task 2 - Favourite Restaurants
IDEA Task 3 – Eating at 30,000 Feet & IDEA Task 4 – What is an Eco Airline?
DME - Airline Meal Designer
DME – Planning to Make
DME – Making the Meal
DME – Evaluating the Meal
Snack Dippers is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 5-7
Design Brief: Design and make a dips and dippers food product as a healthy snack between meals.
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:
• Cooking and Nutrition
In this unit of work children extend their knowledge of food preparation by designing and making a healthy lunchtime snack. They learn how to make Greek Tzatziki and also take part in a taste test to find out what vegetables and biscuits make the best dippers. Using their knowledge of how to make Tzatziki, they adapt this recipe to make a dips and dippers product based on Indian Raita. As part of the evaluation, they design labelling for their snack product and create an advert to promote their product.
Photograph Frames is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 7-9.
Design Brief: Design and make a seasonal, savoury tart for your school lunch
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 unit of work children learn about creating a wooden framework that is used to create a free-standing photograph frame. They investigate how frames are constructed so that they are strong and stable, and the different techniques that allow them to be free-standing. They apply this technical knowledge when designing and making their own wooden photograph frame using the Jinks method. Children learn about ideas of theming and decorating products and apply this knowledge to their own photograph frame.
In this unit of work children learn how to make a focaccia bread product that can be used as part of a shared meal. They investigate a range of bread products from around the world and have the opportunity to taste test some breads that can be bought locally in a bakery then recording their results using a taste test recording sheet. Children learn how to follow a basic bread recipe, about the action of yeast and the importance of kneading bread. Using this knowledge, they adapt this recipe and add other ingredients to create their own focaccia bread product which is shaped to make it suitable to be shared. The completed product is taste tested and evaluated.
Sequence of Learning for Teachers
IDEA Task 1 – Breads from Around the World & IDEA Task 2 Investigating Breads
Focused Practical Task 1 – Baking Bread
IDEA Task 3 – What is Focaccia? & Focused Practical Task 2 – Shaping Dough
DME: Bread Designing
DME: Making Focaccia
DME: Evaluating and Packaging the Product
Money Containers is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 7-9. The unit focuses on Textiles.
Design Brief: Design and make a money container for a special person to keep their money safe.
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 fulfills the National Curriculum (England) Design Technology requirements for this age group in the following strands of learning:
• Materials/Textiles
In this unit of work children design and make a money container using textile materials. They apply their knowledge of how to create pattern template from models and prototypes and how textiles can be joined both temporarily and permanently. Children have the opportunity to consolidate their skills in using the running stitch and are taught the technique of the overstitch. Children learn about different textile fastenings and consider which ones would be best suited to use in a money container. They develop their knowledge of textile decorative techniques including embroidery, embellishment and appliqué to create a money container for someone special.
Sessions:
IDEA Task 1: All About Money Containers & Focused Practical Task 1 – Developing Decorative Stitching
IDEA Task 2: Investigating Money Containers
Focused Practical Task 2 – Simple Coin Purse
Designing Session
Making Session
Evaluation Session
Seasonal Tarts is a Design Technology unit of work aimed primarily at children aged 7-9.
Design Brief: Design and make a seasonal, savoury tart for your school lunch
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 fulfills the National Curriculum (England) Design Technology requirements for this age group in the following strands of learning:
• Cooking and Nutrition
For this project children design and make a seasonal, savoury tart for their school lunch. This unit develops their cooking skills and introduces the technique of baking using pastry. Children learn about seasonality in food and how different climates across Europe mean that different fruit and vegetables are grown and harvested at different times of the year.
Children learn how to make short crust pastry when they create jam tarts. This provides an opportunity to learn more about how and why foods are preserved. Applying their knowledge of how to create sweet tarts, in the design and make activity children design and make a savoury tart for themselves having considered their favourite fruit and vegetables.
In this unit of work children design, make and decorate a Tote Bag to encourage people to be more eco-friendly. Children learn about different types of bags and their functions and understand that designers will often design a product that has both function and is fashionable. Children have the opportunity to develop and consolidate their sewing skills and techniques working with textiles. Each child makes an identical tote bag but in learning about graphic design will make design decisions around additional features to add to their tote bag and also about how to decorate their tote bag with a slogan and logo to promote an eco-friendly message.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: Investigating Bags & Focused Practical Task 1 – Fashion Designers and Mood Boards
IDEA Task 2: Newspaper Bag Challenge
Focused Practical Task 2 – Making a Tote Bag
Eco-Bag Designer
Adding the decoration.
Evaluation session.
In this project, children apply their knowledge of cooking and nutrition to design and make a three-course Italian meal to be served in the class restaurant. Children investigate the different places where people ‘eat out’ and conduct market research to find out about our favourite restaurants. Children learn about restaurants, menus and the different roles of people who work in restaurants. Children are tasked with designing and making a three-course meal that is based on the cuisine of Italy. Thy research recipes and create a plan to make and serve their three-course meal in the class restaurant. They make their dishes and organise a taste test session to evaluate the food that they have made. Using the results from the taste test they take on the role of a restaurant critic and review one of the class restaurant meals.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: All About Restaurants
IDEA Task 2: Favourite Restaurants
DME: Designing a Three Course Meal
DME: Planning a Three Course Meal
DME: The Big Cook
Evaluation Session
In this project, children apply their knowledge of cooking and nutrition to design and make a three-course meal to be served in the class restaurant. Children investigate the different places where people ‘eat out’ and conduct market research to find out about our favourite restaurants. Children learn about restaurants, menus and the different roles of people who work in restaurants. Children are tasked with designing and making a three-course meal that is based on the cuisine of a country of their choice. Thy research recipes and create a plan to make and serve their three-course meal in the class restaurant. They make their dishes and organise a taste test session to evaluate the food that they have made. Using the results from the taste test they take on the role of a restaurant critic and review one of the class restaurant meals.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: All About Restaurants
IDEA Task 2: Favourite Restaurants
DME: Designing a Three Course Meal
DME: Planning a Three Course Meal
DME: The Big Cook
Evaluation Session
In this unit of work children design and make a money container using textile materials. They apply their knowledge of how to create pattern template from models and prototypes and how textiles can be joined both temporarily and permanently. Children have the opportunity to consolidate their skills in using the running stitch and are taught the technique of the overstitch. Children learn about different textile fastenings and consider which ones would be best suited to use in a money container. They develop their knowledge of textile decorative techniques including embroidery, embellishment and appliqué to create a money container for someone special.
Sessions:
IDEA Task 1: All About Money Containers & Focused Practical Task 1 – Developing Decorative Stitching
IDEA Task 2: Investigating Money Containers
Focused Practical Task 2 – Simple Coin Purse
Designing Session
Making Session
Evaluation Session
In this unt of work, children create their own recipe, branding and packaging for a healthy yoghurt-based breakfast meal. This unit of work also includes learning about the importance of breakfast. Children learn how to make yoghurt and how a thermos flask helps to maintain the temperature of the yoghurt allowing the micro-organisms to create yoghurt from milk.
Applying their knowledge of a balanced, healthy diet, children design a layered breakfast pot of yoghurt, cereal and fruit. Consolidating their skills in food preparation, children use their design to make a healthy breakfast product.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1 – All About Breakfast
IDEA Task 2 – Investigating Yoghurts & IDEA Task 3 – Yoghurt Pot Packaging
Focused Practical Task 1 – Making Yoghurt & Focused Practical Task 2 – Cross-Sectional Drawing
Designing a yoghurt-based breakfast
Making the yoghurt product
Evaluation
In this unit of work children create a simple lunch of a healthy soup and a bread roll. Children follow instructions and recipes to make a classic tomato soup and a bread roll. Children learn how bread is made and develop their skills in preparing food and kneading bread. Children consolidate their understanding of how taste testing can be used to evaluate food products and through participating in taste tests develop their own taste vocabulary. Children learn some of the key messages around healthy eating and use this information to explain how their lunchtime meal provides them with a healthy, balanced meal.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: All About Soups & IDEA Task 2: Soup Taste Test
Focused Practical Task 1 – Making Soup
IDEA Task 3: All About Bread
Focused Practical Task 2 – Making a Bread Roll
Meal Designer
Meal Maker
In this unit of work children design and make an alien soft toy and combine it with a Microbit controller to create an interactive soft toy. Children learn how Tamagotchi electronic pets were the most popular toy in the 1990s and that many schools banned pupils from bringing them to school. Children use a mood board and computer software to help them design their alien soft toy. They apply their knowledge and skills of joining textile pieces to create a soft toy which they decorate using a range of fabric techniques. As part of their design, they make a small window and pocket to accommodate a BBC Microbit controller. Using their knowledge of block coding they program the Microbit to interact with the user. As part of the project children create packaging and promotional materials for their product.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: What was a Tamagotchi? & Focused Practical Task 1 – Toy Designer
IDEA Task 2: All About the Micro:Bit
Making the Product
Programming the Product
Packaging the Product
Evaluating the Product
In this project, children design and make a prototype animal home for the school garden or a local park. They are introduced to using computer software to help design products and use this software to design an animal home. Children learn about frame and shell structures and apply this knowledge when making their animal home prototype. As part of the evaluation process children participate in a Dragon’s Den activity where they present their prototype design and model to a ‘panel of experts’.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1 – Animal Homes & IDEA Task 2 – Investigating Structures
Focused Practical Task 1 – Making a Wood Framework & IDEA Task 3 – Understanding Structures
Focused Practical Task 2 – Introducing Computer-Aided Design
Designing the Animal Home
Making Session
Evaluation Session – Into the Dragon’s Den
In this unit of work children design and make a celebration card with a movable part. They are introduced to different mechanisms such as sliders, levers, and pop-ups and how they can be used to create movement in celebration cards. Children apply this knowledge of the different mechanisms when designing and making their card for a particular purpose such as a family celebration or a religious festival.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task – Investigating Pop-Up cards & Focused Practical Task 1 – Movement using a slider mechanism (Tortoise Trek)
IDEA Task 2 – Movement Around the School & Focused Practical Task 2 – Movement using a slider mechanism. (Puppet Show)
Focused Practical Task 3 – Parallel Fold
Focused Practical Task 4 – Rotational Movement (Rocket Round the Moon)
Design & Make a Celebration Card
Evaluation Session
In this unit of work children design and make a robot buggy that is controllable using Crumble Kit and programmed for random movement using computer block coding. As part of this project children learn about how electric vehicles work and the story of Elon Musk. Children embark on a series of focused practical tasks to create a chassis on which to add other electrical components to make their controllable vehicle. They learn how to use block code to program their vehicle to successfully complete the ‘test track’ before their vehicle is allowed to take part in the class Robo Wars. Children evaluate their project by making a short documentary film or a display stand or by taking part in a ‘show and tell’ event.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1 – Robo Wars!
Focused Practical Task 1: Creating the Chassis
Focused Practical Task 2: Vehicle Control
Buggy Designing and Making
Test Track
Evaluation: The Robo Wars Competition – Let Battle Commence
In this unit of work children learn about structures by designing and making a model of a new piece of play equipment for the local playground. They begin by visiting a local playground to look at the different types of playground equipment. their shapes and structures. Whilst at the playground they also focus on different types of movement created by the equipment, particularly linear and rotational movement. Having discussed their favourite playground activities and equipment, they draw a plan of their ideal playground. Children create 2D and 3D structures using drinking straws and pipe cleaners and are taught different ways of making these frame structures stronger, stiffer, and more stable. Using their experience of visiting the playground, children design and make a new piece of play equipment applying different skills and techniques to make the structure strong, stiff and stable.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: Visiting the Local Playground & Focused Practical Task 1: Making Straw Shapes
IDEA Task 2: Playgrounds in Motion
Focused Practical Task 2: Playground Models
Designing Session
Making Session
Evaluating Session
In this unit of work children learn about structures by designing and making a model treehouse. They begin by visiting a local playground to look at different types of playground equipment. Their shapes and structures. Having discussed their favourite playground activities and equipment, they draw a plan of their ideal playground. Children create 2D and 3D structures using drinking straws and pipe cleaners and are taught different ways of making these frame structures stronger, stiffer, and more stable. Having discussed what a treehouse is and the different types of activities that can take place in a treehouse, children draw a labelled drawing of their treehouse design. Working in groups they use their designs to help them make a model of their treehouse and apply their learnt knowledge to make them strong, stable, and stiffer. They evaluate their own models and those of their peers using the design specifications and identify what they like and what they would improve about the products they have made.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: Visiting the Local Playground
Focused Practical Task 1: Making Straw Shapes & IDEA Task 2 – All About Treehouses
Focused Practical Task 2: Playground Models
Designing Treehouses
Making Treehouses
Evaluating Treehouse
In this unit of work children learn about structures by designing and making a model of a monkey enclosure for the local zoo. They begin by visiting a local playground to look at the different types of playground equipment, their shapes and structures. Having discussed their favourite playground activities and equipment, they draw a plan of their ideal playground. Children create 2D and 3D structures using drinking straws and pipe cleaners and are taught different ways of making these frame structures stronger, stiffer, and more stable. Using information from either a visit to a zoo or from watching a video of different monkeys and primates in zoos, children design a new enclosure for monkeys. They use their ideas and designs to help them create a model of a monkey enclosure applying different skills and techniques to make their structure strong, stiff and stable.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: Visiting the Local Playground
Focused Practical Task 1: Making Straw Shapes and IDEA Task 2: Monkeying Around
Focused Practical Task 2: Playground Models
Designing Session
Making Session
Evaluating Session
In this unit of work children design and make a working model of a fairground ride that uses rotational movement and is driven by a pulley system. Applying their understanding of computer programming they use block code to control the movement and functioning of the fairground model. Using their experiences of visiting fairgrounds and theme parks and watching an animation of a theme park, children deepen their understanding of the different movements of fairground rides and how they can be themed as part of the experience. They learn how a pulley and drive belt system works and how they can be used to transfer movement, change the speed and direction of movement. Children design a fairground ride model that uses rotational movement and make a wooden box structure for their model before adding a pulley and drive belt system. They use a Crumble Kit motor as part of an electrical system and apply their knowledge of block coding to control the speed and direction of the motor. Using their designs for guidance, children decorate the fairground model. For the evaluation part of this unit of work children evaluate the overall project and the processes they undertook to create the fairground model.
This knowledge, skills and understanding is delivered through the following six sessions:
IDEA Task 1: Investigating Fairground Rides & IDEA Task 2: Investigating Pulley Systems
Focused Practical Task 1 – Making a Base for the Model
Focused Practical Task 2 – Fairground Ride Designer
Group Designing Session IDEA Task 3: Electric Motors and Computer Control
Making the Model
Evaluating the Project