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K’Nex Challenge 2004/5

K’Nex Challenge 2004/5. David Bowes Curriculum Project Manager for D&T Tel: 01482 392496 email: david.bowes@eastriding.gov.uk. Humber Bridge 2 nd December 2004. SAT. Salutatory Assessment of Teachers Name the vehicle, designer and year of manufacture. The Challenge.

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K’Nex Challenge 2004/5

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  1. K’Nex Challenge2004/5 David Bowes Curriculum Project Manager for D&T Tel: 01482 392496 email: david.bowes@eastriding.gov.uk Humber Bridge 2nd December 2004

  2. SAT • Salutatory Assessment of Teachers • Name the vehicle, designer and year of manufacture

  3. The Challenge • Creativity & Suitability • Version 1 • Issues • Version 2

  4. Learning is most effective when: • Stimulus • Group interaction -Talking about their design • Try and apply • Discuss, revise, refine & reshape • Share, evaluate & transfer

  5. Avoiding Headaches! • Co-ordination - ensuring progression • IDEA • Investigation, Disassembly, Evaluation Activities • FPT • Focussed Practical Task • DMA • Design and Make Assignments

  6. FPTs • Enhance pupils’ communication skills • Build letters • Pieces & ‘bonds’ • Join: • Together • At right angles • Fixed & Moving • Geometric shapes (triangulate) • Mini challenges – height, area, volume.

  7. Shell & Frame structures Bracing Stability Force and Load Begin to evaluate effectiveness Key Features

  8. Progression Content Y3-4 • Joining strip material to make simple frame structures e.g. dowel, square section timber, kit parts, artstraws, folded or rolled card and paper. • Use of card triangle joints to join square section timber. • Simple ways to join artstraws. • Investigating how to increase the strength of frames by the addition of triangles.

  9. Progression Content Y5-6 • Building and testing more complex frame structures from materials such as rolled paper and / or artstraws. • Introduction of a wider range of joining techniques. (photo) • Investigating packaging to see how the net has been designed and which measures have been taken to protect the contents.

  10. Create and use programmes to: • Build a traffic light / pelican crossing • Make a lighthouse • Create a burglar alarm • Control a fairground ride or automated vehicle

  11. Assessment • Original • Modified

  12. Additional Resources • ‘Pods’ (500g weights) • Sheet Materials • Success criteria • Test ramp & surface • Extension activities • Motors, bulbs, ‘control’, etc • Extra K’Nex

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