Category : Year 3/4

Throughout this term in year 4, we have investigated a range of electrical games in preparation to create our own Egyptian themed electrical game. During the investigation we looked at the games Operation, Buzz and The Fishing Game. We looked at how the electrical components are used and inserted into each game. We decided to base our game on Operation as this links to Ancient Egypt and mummification. We then completed the Focused Practical task, we recapped on how to create a simple electrical circuit to light a bulb then tested two different ways of making a switch. We made a flick switch out of split pins and paper clips and a press switch out of folded paper and foil. We then added these switches into our circuits.

The next step in the process was to design our games. We decided that our product had to be fun and entertaining for children with an electrical component. We then made a list of what we would need and wrote out a method.

Then came the exciting part, we got to make our games! Firstly, we drew our designs onto the front and had help to cut out the pieces which would be removed. Then we stuck a layer of foil onto the top of the back layer and added a hole for the wire. Once we has stuck each of the layers together we began to attach each part of the electrical circuit. We attached the wire from the foil on to the battery and the batter to the tweezers. Finally, we inserted the battery to power the circuit and tested our game.

The Final stage of our D&T project was to evaluate our final product. We were all extremely happy with our games, we all made an Egyptian themed Operation game with a bulb that would light up if the player touched the edges of the mummy.

This week, Year 3 have completed their focused practical task of their Design and Technology lessons.

We are thinking about our brief of making a healthy soup for a fisherman.

We are going to be using lots of vegetables in our soup as we know from our investigation that homemade vegetable soup is the healthiest.

We have discussed the importance of hygiene both for ourselves and for the environment that we are preparing food in.

We have used our skills of chopping vegetables to practise our claw and bridge holds to ensure we can chop safely. We also practised our peeling skills.

Year 3 are at the investigation stage of their Design and Technology unit this week.

The design brief is ‘To design and make a seasonal soup for a trawler man’

We begun by discussing what healthy and unhealthy foods are. We can identify unhealthy food and discuss how we should only have these occasionally.

To help us think about our design brief we investigated different types of soups, We have looked at tinned, packet, carton and homemade vegetable soups. We have investigated to find out which soup contains the most salt and sugar as well as which ingredients are in each. We concluded that the homemade soup is the healthiest as it contains the least salt and sugar and has the most vegetables in it.

We have also discovered what seasonality is and the different foods that grow in our country in different seasons.

We found out that asparagus grows in May so we would not be able to get fresh asparagus in our country in winter but we could get fresh red cabbage in winter.