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Year 2 - Design and technology

Envelopes for moving cards

Levers and sliders: moving cards

Unit Summary

This unit develops pupils' knowledge of simple mechanisms. By making levers and sliders, pupils will apply their knowledge of the characteristics of paper and card to make their own moving cards.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use paper folding techniques to create an envelope.

Key Notes

  • Disassembling an envelope helps us understand how it is constructed.
  • Different paper folding techniques are used to construct envelopes.
  • Envelopes need to be larger than the moving card that goes inside.
  • Envelopes are joined together carefully so the moving card can be removed.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • disassemble: to take something apart and to see how it works
  • technique: a special way of doing something
  • construct: to build or put something together
  • protect: to look after something by making sure it doesn't get damaged

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Envelopes have to be exactly the same size as the card that will go inside it.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Disassembling an envelope helps us understand how it is constructed. Different paper folding techniques are used to construct envelopes.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'disassemble'

to take something apart and to see how it works.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Envelopes have to be exactly the same size as the card that will go inside it. Correction: A folded envelope needs to be slightly larger than the card.

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