Beautiful Work – DT

Project Overview

Year two have been very busy designing, making and evaluating a moving vehicle. The children made links with their learning in history from the beginning of the Autumn term and The Great Fire of London. They designed their own fire engine which had to move using wheels and axles. 

Year two had a look at modern day fire engines compared with how they would have put out the Great Fire of London in 1666. They then set about designing their own moving vehicle and considered what features their fire engine would need. 

The children used lots of materials including cardboard, paper, paint, pens, dowelling, wheels, wheel supports and masking tape. Throughout the project the children helped each other as they found they often needed an extra pair of hands.  Lots of skills were practised including fixing, fastening, cutting, measuring, placing and testing.

It was definitely an iterative process as some children discovered that parts of their vehicles didn’t work the first time and they had to go back and change things and the re-test.