Design
Weeks 5-8- DT project
Eiffel Tower
Outcomes in Design
The final outcome is to make a scale model of the
Eiffel Tower from stixx.
Investigate:
Investigate:
Research art movements in history.
Take One Picture- Year 4 Topic Map
Potentially invite and architect to talk to the classes.
Analyse and Synthesise:
Weeks 1-2- Artist study
Research Claude Monet and complete a fact file about him.
Investigate different structures made by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.
Investigate how towers and structures are made and reinforced.
Art
Analyse and Synthesise:
How did the impressionists paint and why was different from
Why is the Eiffel Tower so unique?
previous art movements?
Create and Develop:
Test different shapes to see which ones can be built the highest.
Create a painting in the style of impressionism.
Analyse findings and create prototypes for design preferences.
Communicate:
Create and Develop:
A mini art exhibition for parents. Write a caption about the picture..
Create mini Eiffel Towers in groups.
Evaluate:
Also a larger example for TOP museum made from stixx.
Day to day evaluation of their work
Communicate:
Peer and self- evaluation.
Show projects to parents in TOP museum, children to explain how they
constructed the towers.
Evaluate:
Evaluate designs and constructions considering ‘What went Well’ and
‘EBI’
Outcomes in Art
The children will have produced a fact- file on
Monet following their research
They will create works in an impressionist style.