Plan and make an interactive book
I can plan and make a page for an interactive book.
Plan and make an interactive book
I can plan and make a page for an interactive book.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Design specifications are used to plan products.
- Linkages need to be cut and shaped accurately.
- 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...
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.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 2 design and technology lessons from the Levers and linkages: interactive books unit, dive into the full secondary design and technology curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
Card, printed templates (if required), split pins, sticky tack, pencil, scissors, card backing/cereal box, ruler.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - equipment
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Starter quiz
5 Questions
the motion used to start a mechanism
the motion created by the input
an intended function or result
an item designed to be used
parallel linkage
reverse motion linkage
bell crank
Exit quiz
6 Questions
created by a force (push or pull)
how a product will work
what a product should do
changing a material with or without cutting


