Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

I'm Mrs. Courts, and I'm very pleased to join you for today's lesson on shapes and materials used in playground structures.

This is part of the Freestanding Structures Playgrounds unit.

Our lesson outcome for today is I can investigate the shapes and materials used in playground structures.

We have four new keywords for today's lesson.

I'll say them first and then you repeat them after me.

Are you ready? Brilliant.

Materials.

Materials.

Super.

Materials are what an object is made from.

Features.

Features.

Super.

Features are a special part which makes something special or noticeable.

User.

User.

Excellent.

The user is the person who uses the object.

And our fine words are playground equipment.

Playground equipment.

Super.

Playground equipment are structures that you can play on within a playground, such as swings or slides.

Well done, everyone.

In our lesson today of shapes and materials used in playground structures, we have two parts, two learning cycles.

Our first learning cycle is called Exploring Playgrounds.

Have a look at this picture.

What do you think it is? Look very carefully.

You might recognise it.

That's right, this is a playground.

Where are playgrounds found and what are they used for? Have little think.

That's brilliant.

Yes.

You might have seen them in your local park.

Maybe your school has a playground.

And I wonder what they used for.

That's right, lots of exercise, lots of running around, lots of social skills, lots of talking and having lots of fun.

Playgrounds are often found in parks and schools.

This picture here is a playground.

The purpose of the playground is that a great place for children to explore by running, climbing, jumping, and moving in different ways.

This is called physical activity, and it helps children to keep healthy.

Playgrounds are also great places for children to make friends and to develop social skills.

That means communicating, talking to other people.

We are ready for our first check for understanding now.

I hope you've been listening really carefully.

Brilliant.

So why do we have playgrounds? Why do we have playgrounds? A, to help children be active.

B, to help children to develop social skills.

And C, to make children stop sharing and taking turns.

Pause the video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

So why do we have playgrounds? That's right, to help children to be active and to help children to develop their social skills.

Well done, everyone.

Sofia and her friends enjoy going to their local playground, and they have lots of fun there, and they enjoy playing together.

And here is Sofia with her friends.

Do you go to a playground? Who do you go with? What do you enjoy about it? You may like to share this with somebody.

Well, Sofia and her friends are the users of their local playground.

And the user is the person who uses something.

So who uses your local playground? Have a little think.

So we're ready for our next check for standing now, and I hope you are listening really carefully again.

So who is a user of a playground? Is it A, the person who is playing on the playground? Is it B, the person who made the playground? Or is it C, the person who designed the playground? Pause video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

So who is the user of the playground? It's the person who's playing on it.

Well done, everyone.

Have a look at these playgrounds.

What do you notice? You may like to pause video now and have a little look at them.

Well, these playgrounds are all different.

The playgrounds are different colours.

They're made from different materials.

Remember, a material is what something is made from.

And they're made for different age groups.

And they have different things, different activities to do, such as the monkey bars, the slides, the tunnels, the tubes, loads of things to do to make them exciting and interesting.

And finally, they're all different sizes.

Remember that when you were little, you might have used a smaller toddler playground.

And then as you get bigger, you'd move onto a bigger play area.

Some playgrounds have different areas for different age groups of children, as I just mentioned.

And the different areas need to have different sized equipment so they're safe for different aged children.

This is the toddler area, and here is the play area for the older children.

The steps would be further apart, and the slides might be longer and taller and higher.

Playgrounds can be made from lots of different materials as you can see in the picture.

This one's made of wood.

And here's some metal.

And these parts are made of plastic.

Often, playgrounds are made from a mixture of this wood, metal, and plastic.

The screws, bolts, and other parts that hold them together are usually made from metal.

Playgrounds often have different shapes.

Here's a climbing net.

And here is a carousel.

The carousel will obviously turn around in a circular motion too.

The climbing net has spider as webs, it has circular shapes going round it.

And the carousel has the circular shapes, wavy lines, and long lines.

A playground might have a seesaw.

Every designer makes things differently and makes their designs unique.

That means one of a kind.

So therefore, every seesaw is different.

And this means that they're different shapes, different sizes to fit in different spaces, they might be made with different colours and different materials, so they all look different.

Which ones do you prefer? Why? this is a playground swing.

And again, a playground might have different swings.

They all look different.

And again, they might be made of different shapes, different sizes, different colours, and different materials.

Which one do you prefer and why? Playgrounds are often unique.

Do you remember what that word means? That's right.

One of a kind.

That's right.

So they have different shapes, different sizes, different colours, and different materials.

Which one do you prefer and why? We are ready for our next check for understanding now.

I wonder if you've been listening really carefully.

Brilliant.

Designers often make playgrounds unique.

Equipment in playgrounds is often, A, different colours and sizes, B, all the same, or C, made from different materials.

Pause the video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

So designers often make playgrounds unique, and the equipment in playgrounds is often, that's right, made of different colours and sizes, and from different materials.

Well done.

Remember that word, unique means one of a kind, different.

Well done, everyone.

Playgrounds might also have special features to make them unique.

And unique means one of a kind, as I've mentioned.

So this fort style playground looks like lots and lots of fun.

Would you like to play there? It has metal tunnels in the air, it has lots of wooden forts, and a Roman style with big wheels.

This playground has a saucer roundabout, very different again, very different to the previous picture.

A bright, blue swing with a black nest swing, a different swing again.

And bright, green benches, very colourful.

And a rubbish bin near the seating area to keep the area clean and tidy.

Equipment is often spaced out to make the playground safer.

With lots of people running around, there needs to be lots of space.

Playgrounds are designed by designers.

When they're designed, the council has to give permission for them to be built on their land.

Lucas says permission means to be allowed to do something.

Well done, Lucas.

The council then checks the playground regularly to ensure the equipment works and it is safe.

This playground is taped off because it is not safe.

So therefore, they'll send people to go and repair it and fix it to make it work again.

Make it safe for everybody to use.

Designers often use different materials for the area around playgrounds, and the flooring around this playground is made of rubber, so it's softer than concrete or tarmac.

So why do you think this playground has rubber flooring? That's right, it's to make it safe, because softer flooring means that children are less likely to hurt themselves if they were to fall.

Well done, everyone.

We are ready for task A now, and I'd like you to look at the pictures of different playgrounds.

Have a think about who'd be the user at the playground.

What colours, materials, and shapes can you see in the playgrounds? And do they have any special flooring, for example? Talk to your friend and discuss what you've noticed about the playground designs.

Pause video now and join me when you've completed task A.

Welcome back.

I hope you had lots of fun talking to your friends about the different features of playgrounds.

Well done.

Well, Andeep labelled some of the different features on this picture.

The umbrellas to decorate and to keep children out of the sun.

Very good, Andeep.

And smaller and larger play areas for different aged children.

Bright, colourful play areas to get people interested and excited to go and play.

And wiggly shaped tunnels, which are long and curved.

He also spotted some soft flooring with colours and patterns.

And finally, different materials that were used such as metal and plastic.

Well done, Andeep.

We're ready for our next part of our lesson now, which is about sketching playgrounds.

Well, designers often use sketches in a way of making notes about what they see and to share their ideas.

And often, pictures can show a lot more than a sentence describes.

A sketch is a quick drawing, often using a pencil and a piece of paper.

And a sketch is often made from what the person can see, such as using their eyes, what they can see.

Jacob said, I'm going to sketch a playground.

I'll look closely at the playground and draw what I can see.

I'll look at the features of the playground.

Good idea, Jacob.

We are ready for our next check for understanding, and I hope you are listening really, really carefully.

Brilliant.

True or false? A sketch is a picture taken with a camera, true or false? Pause the video now, have little think.

Welcome back.

So true a false.

A sketch is a picture taken with a camera is false.

Well done.

Why? Brilliant.

A sketch is a quick drawing, often using a pencil and a piece of paper.

It doesn't use a camera.

You may take a photograph and then sketch from your photograph though.

Well done, everyone.

Think about the features of the playground, including the different colours and shapes, different materials, for different age groups, and the different activities and special designs in the playgrounds.

And finally, the different sizes.

As you can see, if you look very carefully, there's a picture of a swing, a photograph, a picture of a swing.

And then you could see a sketch underneath.

We're ready for our next check for standing now.

Are you ready? Brilliant.

So true or false again.

Features of a playground make the area or equipment special or noticeable, true or false? Pause video now and have a little think.

Welcome back.

So true or false, features of a playground make the area or equipment special or noticeable is true.

Well done.

Why? Brilliant, a feature is a special part which makes something special or noticeable.

Playgrounds have lots of features including colour, shape, and size.

Well done, everyone.

To sketch, you will need paper or a worksheet.

You'll need a pencil.

And it's always a good idea to have a rubber to hand just in case you make a little mistake and need to rub it out quickly.

When you look carefully at a photograph or visit a playground, you will notice lots of different shapes and sizes.

You can show these within your sketches.

So first of all, start with the outline.

And then add more detail and more detail until you get to the more finer details such as adding, colouring, or shading to your picture.

This is Sam's sketch of a playground.

Can you notice any shapes or different sized equipment? Do you recognise any of the equipment? That's right.

Well done.

There are the swings, there's the carousel, the roundabouts, and there is a slide.

You'll also notice there's a hill and the trees behind in the park.

We are ready for our final task now, task B.

And hope you are listening very carefully on sketching.

Brilliant.

So I'd like you to sketch a playground.

Remember, look carefully at the shapes.

Choose your colours very carefully.

You don't always have to use colours, you might use shading.

And can you spot the materials that the playground is made from? Pause, video now at complete task B.

Welcome back.

So I hope you had lots of fun sketching today.

Wonderful.

Would you like to show someone your sketch? Brilliant.

Well done, everyone.

Well, Sam created her playground.

And as you've seen before, she found sketching quite hard though, and she realised the objects were not flat shapes.

Therefore, she tried really hard to draw them in 3D.

She used lots of different shapes, looked carefully at the sizes, and thought about the environment around her playground too by adding the trees and the hill.

Well done, Sam.

And well done to all of you as well.

We've reached the end of our lesson for today on shapes and materials used in playground structures.

And I wonder if you can show me a thumbs up if you feel you've met these learning points along the way.

Are you ready? Super.

So shapes and playground designs are chosen purposefully.

Well done.

Materials used in playground designs are shown purposefully.

Brilliant.

And sketching helps us to spot details and features.

Brilliant.

Well done for all of your hard work today.

You've worked very, very hard indeed.

And I'll see you soon.

Bye.