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Year 5

CAD structures: architecture

8 lessons

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  • Critique and evaluate
  • Design
  • Sustainability and climate change

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This unit introduces 3D Computer Aided Design to pupils. They will investigate modern architects to understand the techniques and materials they use in sustainable housing. They will develop knowledge of TinkerCAD to design and present a model sustainable house.

Understanding how to use various Computer Aided Design applications widens a designer's knowledge, allowing them to use the correct tools for the proper purpose. Pupils will have used Computer Aided Design in the previous Year 5 unit, 'Using CAD in textiles: pattern design'. This unit introduces 3D modelling and focuses on designing digital solutions while building on Key Stage 1 sustainability design units. Pupils' knowledge of architectural design to inspire pupil work will be developed, supporting the Year 6 'Products and people: inspirational design' unit.

  1. Sustainable housing
  2. The TinkerCAD user interface
  3. Modify 3D shapes
  4. Compound 3D shapes
  5. Complex 3D shapes
  6. Manipulating 3D shapes
  7. Develop and model 3D housing
  8. Present to a wider audience

  • Pupils have experience of different joining, cutting and finishing techniques with materials.
  • Pupils have a basic understanding of 2D and 3D shapes in mathematics.
  • Pupils have a basic understanding of the physical properties and everyday uses of materials.
  • Pupils have experience of simple computer-aided design applications.

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