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Year 6 DT - Morse Code Transmitters and WW2 Pear Crumble

Vocabulary

Morse code - an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short light or sound signals.

Design - an opportunity to explore possible solutions that meet the design brief that has been set and the specification.

Make - to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.

Evaluate - designers evaluate their finished products or prototypes in order to test whether they work well and if the design can be corrected or improved.

Recipe - a recipe is an instructional text used when cooking or baking food.

Method - a method is a particular way of doing something.

I already know…

How to use the design, make and evaluate process used within DT. The importance of a healthy and varied diet with a basic understanding of where food comes from.

By the end of this unit, I will have…

  • designed, made and evaluated a morse code transmitter.
  • refined a WW2 recipe.
  • understood which foods were available during WW2.
  • followed a WW2 recipe to create my own dish.

The skills I will develop include...

Designing an effective brief for my morse code transmitter drawing on previous models, making and evaluating my own morse code transmitter. Refining a WW2 recipe discussing which foods were available and why. Safely using a range of cooking equipment when following a recipe.