Rides and Technology Teachers' Notes
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the Disneyland® Resort Paris 12–14 years Rides and Technology workbook is to reinforce learning through observing, analysing and communicating in:
- Science, particularly forces and friction
- Art and design
- Design and technology, developing, planning and communicating ideas
- ICT, developing ideas and making things happen
- Modern Foreign Languages
- All activities can be completed individually or as a group
Science
Pre/Post Visit Work
Disneyland Resort Paris offers countless opportunities for scientific enquiry, with planning, obtaining and presenting evidence, considering evidence and evaluating.
As well as forces and friction you could also use your visit to Disneyland Resort Paris to explore:
- Speed
- Pressure
- Velocity
- Acceleration and deceleration
- Gravity
- Newton's Laws of Motion
Curriculum Links
This workbook has been developed for schools to meet:
- English and Welsh National Curriculum, KS3 Science, Sc4.2
- Forces and linear motion
- Forces and pressure
- Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, Environmental Studies: Science
Art and Design
Pre/Post Visit Work
Disneyland Resort Paris is the ideal place to study art and design.
As well as developing, planning and communicating ideas, you could also use your visit to Disneyland Resort Paris to explore:
- Evaluating processes – identifying and using criteria to judge the quality of other people's products
- Knowledge and understanding of materials and components
- Knowledge and understanding of systems and control
Curriculum Links
This workbook has been developed for schools to meet:
- English and Welsh National Curriculum, KS3 Design and Technology
- Developing, planning and communicating ideas
- Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, Environmental Studies: Technology
- Preparing for tasks, carrying out tasks, reviewing and reporting on tasks
- English and Welsh National Curriculum, KS3 Art and Design
- Investigation, combining and manipulating materials and images
- Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, Expressive Arts: Art and Design
- Using materials, techniques, skills and media; expressing feelings, ideas, thoughts and solutions; evaluating and appreciating
Design and Technology
Pre/Post Visit Work
Disneyland Resort Paris offers many chances to explore the uses
of design and technology.
As well as looking into the design and technology behind the
parades and shows you could investigate:
- The use of materials, techniques and skills to add attention to detail
in the rides in the Resort, i.e. Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
on board stereo, the theming on the Space Mountain: Mission 2 carriages,
the weathering on the rocks around Big Thunder Mountain
- Evaluating and appreciating the evolution of moving pictures, shown through
the displays in the Art of Disney Animation® – you
can even create your own work of art
- Using materials, techniques and skills – how the design and technology
behind the movies has changed over the years by visiting CinéMagique
Curriculum Links
This workbook has been developed for schools to meet:
- English and Welsh National Curriculum, KS3 Design and Technology
- Developing, planning and communicating ideas
- Evaluating processes and products
- Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, Expressive Arts: Art and Design
- Using materials, techniques, skills and media; expressing feelings; ideas,
thoughts and solutions, evaluating and appreciating
ICT
Pre/Post Visit Work
Disneyland Resort Paris offers many chances to explore the uses of ICT.
As well as exploring the development of ideas and making things happen, you could also use your visit to Disneyland Resort Paris to explore:
- Finding things out, how to obtain information by selecting appropriate sources through research into theme parks on the Internet
- Collecting, analysing, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative information through a survey of fellow pupils and their enjoyment of the attractions
- Exchanging and sharing information through the production of an electronic diary or Resort guide using a range of ICT tools back at school
Curriculum Links
This workbook has been developed for schools to meet:
- English and Welsh National Curriculum, KS3 ICT
- Developing and exploring information, solving problems and deriving new information for particular purpose
- How to use ICT to measure, record, respond to and control events
- How to use ICT to test predictions and discover patterns and relationships
- To recognise where groups of instructions need repeating and to automate frequently used processes
- Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, ICT
- Collecting and analysing
- Searching and researching
- Communicating and collaborating
Modern Foreign Languages
Pre/Post Visit Work
Disneyland Resort Paris offers countless additional opportunities for education, here are a few ideas you may like to explore:
Modern Foreign Languages
- Working with authentic materials - collect Park Guides and other leaflets in French, and translate them into English, with the help of a dictionary
Curriculum Links
This workbook has been developed for schools to meet:
Modern Foreign Languages
- English and Welsh National Curriculum, KS3 Modern Foreign Languages
- Developing language skills
- Developing cultural awareness
- Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines, Modern Languages
- Listening, speaking, reading, writing
Extension activities
- Modern Foreign Languages – Visit one of the following attractions and listen to the commentary in French, then make rough notes of what you have heard:
- Star Tours, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
- Animagique, Studio Tram Tour®: Behind the Magic, The Legend of The Lion King
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