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TTS Build-a-House Class Kit
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Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Working Doorbell
The kit includes components to create a working doorbell and light, which enhances children's understanding of electrical systems.
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Cross-Curricular Activity
This kit, designed for 30 children, integrates multiple subjects to provide a comprehensive learning experience.
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Expert Design
This kit was designed by Caroline Alliston, a mechanical engineer, ensuring it provides high-quality educational content for classroom activities.
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Creative Decoration
Children decorate and create figures to populate their houses, fostering creativity and personalisation.
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Electrical Systems
This kit supports Key Stage 2 Design & Technology by teaching children to understand and use electrical systems in their projects.
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TTS Build-a-House Class Kit
A STEM kit for 30 children to design and build model houses with working doorbells and lights.
Overview
Children learn about series circuits, including cells, wires, switches, and buzzers, applying their knowledge to create working models.
Classrooms need engaging STEM kits to enhance learning. The build a house kit meets this need by allowing children to design and create their own model houses, making understanding electrical systems both fun and interactive.
This hands-on STEM kit enhances children’s understanding of electrical systems and fosters creativity. By constructing a working doorbell and light, it makes learning immersive and practical. Supporting literature such as lesson plans and PowerPoint presentations aids interactive classroom learning.
Aligned with the UK curriculum for Design & Technology, the kit helps children use electrical systems in their projects. The kit also sparks creativity, allowing children to decorate and create figures for their houses. It contains components like cardboard boxes, plastic sheets, bulb and battery holders, switches, buzzers, and decoration items like foam sheets and pipe cleaners.
Supports the National Curriculum
Design & Technology, Key Stage 2, Technical Knowledge
Understand and use electrical systems in their products (for example, series circuits incorporating switches, bulbs, buzzers and motors).
Science, Year 4, Electricity
Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.
Product Information
Overview
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30 cardboard boxes, 10 corrugated plastic sheets, 30 bulb holders, 50 bulbs, 180 crocodile leads, 60 battery holders, 30 push-to-make switches, 30 slide switches, 30 buzzers, 10 self-adhesive foam sheets, 250 pipe cleaners, 560 Wiggly Eyes, 300 Pom Poms
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Suitable for age 5 years and up
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STEM