This half term, Year 2 have been designing many different free standing structures.
Each lesson, we have been given a design brief explaining what our design and technology task would be that day.
We then followed the design process: evaluate, design, make and evaluate for each of these structures.
The first structure we made was a strong and stable wall for Humpty Dumpty. We discovered that interlocking bricks were more stable than single-file bricks.
The second structure we made was a swing using frame structures. We learnt how triangles are the strongest shape and used this information to help us design our swings.
Finally, this week we built a stable, freestanding structure for Humpty Dumpty’s garden.. We learnt how to join structures together to ensure that they wouldn’t fall over.
