EYFS
- Recognise that a range of technology in used in homes and schools.
- Use what they have learnt about media and materials in different ways.
- Talk about ideas and processes which have led them to make designs and products.
KS1
- Build simple structures, exploring how they can be made stronger, stiffer and more stable.
- Talk about and start to understand the simple working characteristics of materials and components.
- Explore and create products using mechanisms, such as levers, sliders, wheels and axles.
LKS2
- Understand that materials have both functional properties and aesthetic qualities.
- Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures in order to create more useful characteristics of products.
- Understand and demonstrate how mechanical and electrical systems have an input and output process.
- Make and represent simple electrical circuits and components to create functional products.
- Explain how mechanical systems such as levers and linkages create movement.
- Use mechanical systems in their products.
UKS2
- Apply their understanding of how to strengthen, stiffen and reinforce more complex structures in order to create more useful characteristics of products.
- Understand and demonstrate that mechanical and electrical systems have an input, process and output.
- Explain how mechanical systems, such as cams, create movement and use mechanical systems in their products.
- Apply their understanding of computing to program, monitor and control a product.