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.