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Biodomes

Project: Create a biodome to support species of animals.

(Cross-curricular - Design and technology for creation and computing for website design)

Prior learning:
* Why do we research ecosystems?
* What is adaptation?
* What is variation?
* What are biomes?

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Project: Create an Ice lolly stall to sell to children in order to raise money for Dubai Cares.

Objectives - goals
* compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases
* observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C)
* identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.

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Thank you to all the educators who have inspired and provided their support and ideas.

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Project: Design and create a magnetic device to be used to capture a villian in the new Avengers movie

Objective - skill
* compare how things move on different surfaces
* notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
* observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others.
* compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials
* describe magnets as having two poles

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Year 5 Forces/Properties and changes of matter

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Year 5 Forces/Properties and changes of matter

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Project: Design and create a luxury dinner boat that will tour Dubai Canal

(Core text - Kensuke's Kingdom - Michael Morpurgo)

Objectives - skill
* give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.
* compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets.
* identify the effects of water resistance that act between moving surfaces.
* recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.

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Project: Create an APP/website that can be used to educate children about evolution and inheritance

(Cross-curricular Computing - coding a website , writing the HTML)

Objectives- skill
* recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
*  recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents.
*  identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.

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Project: Create a science show to educate children

(Links - 'Sid the Science Kid' and 'Bill Nye the Science Guy')

* describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.
* identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions.
* construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.

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Project: Organise and carry out a fund raising acitivity for Dubai Cares selling snacks

Objective - skill
* describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
* find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)

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Project:  Create a film documentary about animals

(Link - David Attenborough)

Objective- skill
* notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
*  find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival (water, food and air)

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Project:  Create a film documentary about animals

(Link - David Attenborough)

Objective- skill
* describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)
* identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
* identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

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Project: Create some games/board games to raise money for Dubai Cares at the school fayre

Objectives - skill
* associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit
* compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches
* use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram
* associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit

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Project: Design and create a matress for you to have the most comfortable sleep on

(Core text - The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson)

* identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses.
* find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

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Project: Design and create a matress for you to have the most comfortable sleep on

(Core text - The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Anderson)

* distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made.
* identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
* describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials
* compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties

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Project: Create a film documentary about plants

(Link - David Attenborough)

Objectives- skill

*  identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
* identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees

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Project: Create a film documentary about the life cycle of animals and plants

(Link - David Attenborough)

Objectives- skill
* describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals
* describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird

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Project: Create a film documentary about plants

(Link - David Attenborough)

Objectives- skill
* observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
*  find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

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Project: Create a film documentary about plants

(Link - David Attenborough)

Objectives- skill
*  identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.
* explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.
*  investigate the way in which water is transported within plants.
* explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal.

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Year 2 Everyday materials and their uses

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Year 2 Everyday materials and their uses

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Project: Create an all weather travelling bag for your teacher's trips abroad

Objective - skill
* identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses
* find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

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Project: Design and create a working Mars Rover

(Cross-curricular Computing - program a working Mars Rover that can be directed)

(Core text idea- Cosmic by Frank Cotteral-Boyce)

Objectives - skills
* give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.
* compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
* describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system
* describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth
* describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies
* use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky

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Project: Design and create the most efficient and safe parachute for Sky Dubai (Skydiving- good to have a video of a teacher skydiving)

Objectives-skill
* give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.
* compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
* identify the effects of air resistance and friction that act between moving surfaces.
* recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect

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Project: Design and create a new airbus for Emirates

(Cross-curricular Art and Design and Computing - creating a 3D scale model/graphic design of the airbus)

Objectives - skill

* give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.
* compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets
* identify the effects of air resistance and friction that act between moving surfaces.
* recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect

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https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf

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Project: Designing water proof trainers for triathletes

Objectives - goals
•Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects. •Talks about why things happen and how things work.
Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things

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Project: Create an Ice lolly stall to sell to children

Objectives - goals
•Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects. •Talks about why things happen and how things work.

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Project: Design and create a dinner boat that can travel up and down Dubai Canal.

Objectives - goals
•Can talk about some of the things they have observed such as plants, animals, natural and found objects. •Talks about why things happen and how things work.
* Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things

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Project: Trap your teacher! - create a circuit that will alert you that your teacher is coming.

Objectives - skill
* identify common appliances that run on electricity
* construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
* identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
* recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
* recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

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Year 2 Living things and their habitats 

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Year 2 Living things and their habitats 

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Project: create a minibeast farm

Objectives - skills
* explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
* identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other
* identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro-habitats
* describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food

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Project: create a way/ device/ instrument to show the changing of weather or of seasons

Objectives- skills
* can identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
* can identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
* to observe changes across the four seasons
* observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies

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Project: Create a healthy living restaurant/ healthy living menu that could be presented to your school for canteen changes

(Cross-curricular Computing - creating a website for your restaurant outlining the importance of healthy living)

Objectives- skill
* recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function

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Project: Create a spy gadget to help you see round corners

(Core text idea- Stormbreaker by Anthony Horrowitz)

Objectives - skill
*recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines
* use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
* explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
* use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

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Project: create a set of selfie sunglasses to market

(Links to Coding and programming)

Objectives - skill
*recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines
* use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
* explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
* use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

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Year 6 Animals and their habitats/Evolution and Inheritance 

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Year 6 Animals and their habitats/Evolution and Inheritance 

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Project: create a biodome museum that can be housed anywhere in the world

Objectives - skill
* describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals
* given reasons for classifying animals and plants based on specific characteristics
* identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environments in different ways and how adaptation can lead to evolution

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Project: Design and create a garden

Objectives - skill
* observe how a bulb matures into a plant
* find out how plants need water, light and suitable temperatures to grow and stay helathy
* compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper, cardboard for particular use

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Project: Create a telephone (Alexander Graham Bell)

* identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
* recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
* find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
* find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
* recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases

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Project: Create a spy gadget to check when your parents are coming

Objectives - skill
* recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
* notice that light is reflected from surfaces

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Project: Sun's out! Create a tool or an instrument that will protect people's eyes from the sun

Objectives - skill
* recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
* notice that light is reflected from surfaces
*recognise that light from the sun can be dangerous and that there are ways to protect my eyes

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Project: Become a film director - use light and shadows to create dramatic atmospheres in the film your make.

(Link to trailer making for school production)

Objectives - skill
*recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines
* use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
* explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
* use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

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Project: How do we purify water?

Objectives - skill
* know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution
* use my knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating
* demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes
* explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda

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Project: Engineer and code a teaching tool - design a working electronic teaching tool that can educate others about Earth and Space

(Core text idea- Cosmic by Frank Cotteral-Boyce)

* describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system
* describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth
* describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies
* use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky

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Year 5 Space/Forces/Properties of materials

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Year 5 Space/Forces/Properties of materials

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Project: Design and build a water rocket.

(Core text idea: Cosmic by Frank Cotteral-Boyce)

Objectives - skill
* Identify the affect of air resistance
* Force of gravity
* give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic
* describe the simple physical properties of a variety of everyday materials

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Project: Design and create a garden

Objectives - skill
* can identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
* can identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
*  identify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
* distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made

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Project: Trap your teacher! -  create a circuit that will alert you that your teacher is coming.

Objectives - skill
* associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit
* compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on/off position of switches
* use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram
* associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit