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Year 2 Knowledge Organisers

Mechanisms: Fairground wheel

Building a rotating fairground wheel with a free-standing structure, this unit offers a simplified wheel design made from repurposed materials and an additional lesson where children design and conduct a survey to gather opinions.

Cooking and nutrition: Balanced diet

Learning about the importance of a balanced diet and using that knowledge to create a tasty wrap.

Mechanisms: Making a moving monster

Explore levers, linkages and pivots through existing products and experimentation, use this research to construct and assemble a moving monster.

Structures: Baby Bear’s chair

Explore stability and methods to strengthen structures, to understand Baby Bear’s chair weaknesses and develop an improved solution for him to use.

Textiles: Pouches

Learn how to sew a running stitch ready to design, make and decorate a pouch using a template.