Context

Mini Play Here at our school, we love to see all our students
play at recess and lunch time on our play equipment.

Equipment Design brief

Your task is to design and make a mini play
YEAR 1 equipment that you wish to see in our school play
yard for you and your friends. You will bend, twist
Miss Gibson's and stretch the materials to make a mini play
class equipment. You can be as creative as you wish.

Materials: Crayons
Glue Coloured Pencils
Cardboard Pom Poms
Colour card Strips of fabrics
Scissors Pop sticks
Masking tape Recycled containers
Pipe cleaner Recycled cardboard
Plasticine boxes

Limitation
The play equipment should be no taller than your
everyday 30 cm ruler.

Deliverables
You will hand one model of a play equipment.

Essential Question:
What is the object are you using? And why is
this?
Does it bend, stretch or twist?
What is the material is this made from?
What material worked best for bending? Why is
this?
What action are you using to change that object?
Brains Storm Ideas
Design 1 Design 2

Design 4 Design 3

Final Design
Key Questions to
Answer
Chose one object are you using?
Draw your material

Do they bend, stretch or twist?

circle the answer

Yes No
What is the material is this made from?
circle the answer

Wood Wool Plastic Glass

Other
What action are you using to change that object?
circle the answer

bend twist stretch

Finished Play
Equipment

Glue Photo here

Rubric-
Mini Play Equipment
Year 1

This shows that

students have

completed the

following...

Evidence of

bending, twisting

and stretching

materials

Complete a draft

and final design

Answer of the key

questions

Final product

Participation in the

activity