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Year 5 design and technology

Year 5 design and technology runs to 24 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 9 to 10 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes PhD, sustainable, eco-architect, eco-house, natural ventilation, Tinkercad, workplane, ViewCube, orbit, pan, translating, rotating.

These lessons are written by Oak National Academy, the government-funded curriculum body, and are free to anyone. StudyDen sequences them, marks the answers and keeps the record.

Every Year 5 design and technology lesson

In the order they are taught. 24 lessons.

CAD structures: architecture

  1. Sustainable Housing: Designing with the Planet in Mind
  2. The Tinkercad User Interface
  3. Modify 3D Shapes in Tinkercad
  4. Compound 3D Shapes in Tinkercad
  5. Complex 3D Shapes in Tinkercad
  6. Manipulating 3D Shapes in Tinkercad: Building an Eco-House
  7. Critique 3D Eco-Houses
  8. Exploded Diagrams in CAD

Pulleys and gears: electric vehicles

  1. Dorothée Pullinger and Car Design
  2. Pulley Systems
  3. Switches in Simple Circuits
  4. Harry Beck and Circuit Diagrams
  5. Make an Electric Vehicle Chassis
  6. Assemble an Electric Vehicle
  7. Aerodynamics: Shaping Vehicles to Cut Through Air
  8. Add a Switch to a Design

Combining fabrics: accessible textiles

  1. Accessible Textile Products
  2. Select Fabrics for Functional and Aesthetic Properties
  3. Design Action Plans
  4. Fabric Seams and Curves
  5. Fabric Pockets and Slots
  6. Accessible Fasteners
  7. Develop and Finish an Accessible Product
  8. Impact Statements

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Common questions

What does Year 5 design and technology cover?
Year 5 design and technology runs to 24 lessons across a 36 week year, covering PhD, sustainable, eco-architect, eco-house, natural ventilation, Tinkercad and more.
How many design and technology lessons are in Year 5?
24 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 5?
Children in Year 5 are 9 to 10 years old during the school year in England and Wales.