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Plan and make an interactive book

I can plan and make a page for an interactive book.

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Plan and make an interactive book

I can plan and make a page for an interactive book.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Design specifications are used to plan products.
  2. Linkages need to be cut and shaped accurately.
  3. Linkages need to be joined accurately.

Keywords

  • Function - what a product should do

  • Performance - how a product will work

  • Movement - action created by a force (push or pull)

  • Shaping - changing a material with or without cutting

Common misconception

Cutting and shaping are not the same.

Cutting can be a form of shaping.


To help you plan your year 4 design and technology lesson on: Plan and make an interactive book, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

Cereal boxes are an ideal way to add reinforcement to the card or as the card backing for the interactive book. Encourage children to consider how the linkage will be embedded within the page of the interactive book.
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Equipment

Card, printed templates (if required), split pins, sticky tack, pencil, scissors, card backing/cereal box, ruler.

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Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - equipment
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Supervision

Adult supervision required

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Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

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5 Questions

Q1.
A good way to get the users' views, needs and wants is through ...
watching a film
Correct answer: asking questions
writing a book
playing a game
Q2.
Match these words to their meanings.
Correct Answer:input,the motion used to start a mechanism
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the motion used to start a mechanism

Correct Answer:output,the motion created by the input
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the motion created by the input

Correct Answer:purpose,an intended function or result
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an intended function or result

Correct Answer:product,an item designed to be used
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an item designed to be used

Q3.
Can you match these linkages to their description?
Correct Answer:has two vertical and two horizontal bars,parallel linkage
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parallel linkage

Correct Answer:works in the opposite direction,reverse motion linkage
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reverse motion linkage

Correct Answer:has two levers and a quarter circle,bell crank
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bell crank

Q4.
After user research interviews, the designer will complete a design ...
Correct answer: specification
drawing
prototype
game
Q5.
Which of these linkages has a lever that moves at right angles to each other?
lazy-tong linkage
Correct answer: bell-crank linkage
reverse motion linkage
parallel linkage
push-pull linkage

6 Questions

Q1.
What is the performance of a product?
How it looks
Correct answer: How it works
How much it costs
Q2.
Can you match the words to their definition?
Correct Answer:movement ,created by a force (push or pull)
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created by a force (push or pull)

Correct Answer:performance,how a product will work
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how a product will work

Correct Answer:function,what a product should do
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what a product should do

Correct Answer:shaping,changing a material with or without cutting
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changing a material with or without cutting

Q3.
Which linkage shows the output being opposite to the input?
Correct Answer: An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
An image in a quiz
Q4.
Why does the pivot hole need to be accurate?
Correct answer: so the pivot moves freely
so the pivot slips
so the pivot doesn't move
Q5.
Which of these is a way of shaping card?
gluing
Correct answer: folding
sketching
Q6.
By accidentally changing the shape of a linkage when you cut it, this could affect its ...
Correct Answer: performance, how it works, movement, function

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