It's the Three Little Pigs!

Ah, no longer a mystery! It was The Three Little Pigs! Use this well-known Traditional Tale to investigate local building materials and those used around the world.

Teaching Outcomes
To investigate building materials, including local traditional crafts and those used around the world.

Children will:

• Retell traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’.
• Construct model homes using various everyday materials; investigate properties of these materials.
• Investigate building materials used in locality – flint, stone, brick, wood; suggest reasons why chosen.
• Research natural materials used around the world for building construction.
• Use conclusions to design an ideal home to withstand the wolf’s attack
• Write estate agent’s description (assessment activity).

• Carousel of activities
• My ideal home

• Three Little Pigs story sack and book
• Information books such as: Homes Around the World by Max Moore; Home by Kate Petty Oxfam; Stanley the Builder by William Bee
• Key word labels: properties, strong, waterproof, rigid, firm, soft, absorbent, flexible
• Construction workers’ high visibility jackets and helmets
• Collage materials: sticks, straws, paper rectangles representing bricks, construction sets and wooden bricks
• Materials for science investigations: paper, marshmallows, kebab sticks, sugar cubes, clay
• Paper and wax crayons for rubbings
• Squeezable bottles to recreate huffing and puffing

Ideas for 3 Little Pig's homes from letkidscreate.blogspot.co.uk
Photos and information about houses constructed with natural material from naturalhomes.org
Learning about the stability of structures and properties of materials from sciencesparks.com
Walt Disney cartoon 'The 3 Little Pigs' − YouTube clip