Year 1 - Term 1 week 8 Inventors Prompt: Can you make a telephone to communicate with a friend? How does it work? Year 1 had the opportunity over the last couple of sessions to plan, collaborate and create string telephones in the inventor’s centre and challenge themselves by writing an explanation about how to use their device. This week’s focus is to allow students the opportunity to be creative and challenge their learning further by designing their own communication device as part of the ‘what’s next’ part of our learning. Introduction: Explain that today we are going to focus on what’s next in our learning once we have finished creating our sting telephones and writing an explanation of how to use it. Explain that we will be inventors and design our very own communication device for others to use. Refer back to the learning intention and revise the process of planning, creating, where to next and sharing. Display – a timeline of communication devices that were invented over the years in history starting from Alexander Bell’s first design. Discuss similarities and differences in design and function as technology advanced. Telephones now help us communicate in a much more advanced ways then the simple telephones of the past. Students TPS differences and similarities of different devices and teacher records thoughts. Display prompt- Can you make a device to communicate with a friend? How does it work? Plan- Explain that students will be designing their own communication devices and thinking about what features it will have and how it works. Students may take inspiration from a device that was invented in the past or a more modern day device. They may also have their own brand new invention that has not yet been created. Their first job is to think about what it will look like and draw / design it on paper. The next step is to add details of how it functions and special features that make it work efficiently e.g. dials, buttons, numbers, touch screen, Antenor etc. This design process is the most important part of the invention. Model how to add labels and ideas of how the device may work. Play video- It’s not a box by Antoinette Portis- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwqxd4SfNcw -Discuss how they can change a box into a communication device by planning, designing and creating their own ideas into an invention. Display- a picture chart of design ideas on how to create a device using different materials, cardboard and paper of various devices in history. Plan Design- Draw the plan for your design so that you know what it looks like, the size, shape and how it functions. Play short how to clip- https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/774971048375324422/ Teacher displays an example of a phone she has made at home and models how to plan the design. Create- Explain how each design looks and functions differently. They must think of the best materials needed to make their device and how to draw, cut, stick and add detail to their design to make it look and function realistically. They must then work with a partner to create their design and test it. They must work together to problem solve and fix problems that may arise in the design and create process. Teacher models how to choose resources for her own phone design and the steps in the creation process. Record- Students may then work together to write an explanation about how their device works to share with year 1 at reflection time. Share with year 1 during reflection.
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