The relentless drive for 'efficiency&' in higher education, and the consequent increase in workloads, has given university teachers a compelling incentive to investigate alternative forms of assessment. Some forms of assessment with a clear educational value can no longer be entertained because of the burden placed on the teacher. An added concern is plagiarism, which anecdotal evidence would suggest is on the increase yet which is difficult to detect in large modules with more than one assessor.
So we have CAD, CAM and CNC…. Confused by how they differ?
Within this video as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
We will look closer into:
What does CNC & CAM stand for?
How they differ from each other?
And the advantages and disadvantages
WHAT IS COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD)? So you want to be a product engineer? Or maybe an architect? There is a good chance you will need to know CAD means. Within this video as we CONTINUE our GCSE REVISION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY.
// We will look closer into:
What is CAD?
Where is CAD used?
A typical CAD process: STEP BY STEP to creating a Christmas snowflake, file types (DXF)
The Advantages and disadvantages to using CAD
Primary students learn how to develop their CAD drawing skills using TinkerCAD and the video and worksheet resource provided. This builds upon other tasks that are also available for download. The series is below based on hour long lessons for year 3 to year 7 students.
Spanner - Replicating shapes.
Robot - Replicating shape and estimating size.
Spacecraft - Creating own shape and estimating size and form.
Chess piece - Creating and replicating shape, replicating size accurately given constraints.
Lego brick - Replicating shape, form, and size accurately.
Balloon powered car - Replicating shape, form, and size accurately.
This paper describes early experiences with the Ceilidh system currently being piloted at over 30 institutions of higher education. Ceilidh is a course-management system for teaching computer programming whose core is an auto-assessment facility. This facility automatically marks students programs from a range of perspectives, and may be used in an iterative manner, enabling students to work towards a target level of attainment. Ceilidh also includes extensive course administration and progress-monitoring facilities.
GCSE Technology Careers Posters
Subject specific careers and GCSE course information. A3 posters for four different Technology subjects - Design Technology, Creative iMedia, Food Preparation & Nutrition and Computer Science.
-Print A3 and use for GCSE options as information for parents and students.
For more detail about this resource, visit - www.educationbycreation.com
Here you have a Design Technology Quiz, tried and tested with KS3 and GCSE students studying DT. The quiz is interactive throughout using Hyperlinks navigating to the correct and incorrect answers which appear clearly on the screen for students to see.
The quiz contains 23 questions and covers:
environmental impact, selecting the correct materials, textiles fabrics, obsolescence and standard components and their function.
This Quiz has been tried and tested and has had fantastic feedback from students and teachers. It is great for a specialist teacher or a non-specialist teacher during a DT cover lesson.
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Food Written Exam/Mock Questions and Revision suitable for all exam boards (Larger Bundle
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Computer-Aided Manufacture (CAM)
This resource is part of the set for “Working In Engineering”
Aim: Explore computer-aided manufacture (CAM) systems and software and their application in manufacturing.
This resource includes:
Session Power-point file (19 slides)
Information sheet handout
CAM handout
Careers handout
Please feel free to check out our other resources, over the next academic year we will be adding a whole host of resources to support teaching Engineering.
A one-lesson presentation on how Quality Assurance and Quality Control is implemented in Graphics. This includes sampling, computer aided inspection and how Total Quality Management works.
GCSE Design Technology Revision poster.
Portrait Powerpoint so can be used on the board or printed as display material.
Ideal for the start of a lesson, a quick filler, a homework, part of a cover lesson or as a plenary on the board with a whiteboard pen.
The idea behind these is to get students to become more literate and think independently about the words that could be used to describe the topic being taught. Often the students will pick up on things that you would not normally expect!
These Design Technology lessons focus on 3D Printing, Bending and Shaping, Die Casting, Lathe/Milling Machine/CAD-CAM, Manufactured Boards, Power and Machine tools and Soft and Hardwoods. The lessons are suitable for KS3 and GCSE students.
**Shaping Techniques: Die Casting and Sand Casting: Whole Lesson
This full lesson includes accurate information for your students to understand Die Casting and Sand Casting. Great to introduce students too - but also for revision.
What the PPT includes:
• The starter introduces them to an exam style question based on Die Casting - students will be given a hand out explaining the command words which will appear in their exam. They will them highlight the command words and key information in the mock question itself. (this will come in handy later on in the lesson)
• Information about the Die Casting and sand casting process - images and videos
• Two hand outs -
The first task asks students to answer an exam style question relating to Die Casting - They will be given time to answer the question. The second hand out shows a model answer to the question along with the mark scheme. They will be asked to mark the model answer using the mark scheme and reflect. They will they go back to their answer and mark in the same way reflecting after. Plenary - Students will identify the pro’s of each casting process.
**Shaping Techniques: Lathe/Milling Machine/CAD-CAM/his PPT is a whole lesson.
It’s great to introduce students to the topic of Shaping Techniques when using the Milling machine and Lathe (can also be used for the revision period) - It also explores CAD/CAM when used with these 2 machines/processes.
An exam question has also been included focusing on The Milling Machine. The answer for this question has been provided also with highlighted content showing where students will pick up the marks. This is all presented on 1 slide, so you could always show it to the class and run through it to encourage self assessment.
The PPT is full of reliable subject information. Videos and imagery are included for those more visual learners and to support understanding and learning
**Shaping Techniques: Bending and Shaping PPT is a whole lesson.
This PPT is a whole lesson - great for introducing students to the topic or for revision.
The lesson cover:
Bending Materials – naming 3 types
This is a task for students to complete. The task consists of students completing a detailed table by unscrambling the function of each bending type and example products. Answers have been provided on the next slide for the convenience of teacher and student.
Heated before being bent-
Subject specific information including reference to ‘annealing’
Pressed and Shaped
Subject specific information provided - images and video to help support learning. Diagram of the pressing process provided along with a task for students asking them to draw and label the metal sheet press process - great for exam prep.
**Shaping Techniques: 3D Printing PPT is a whole lesson.
Slides include reliable information from the CGP Revision booklet. You will find the following:
Clearly layed out task sheets to help structure the students’ work/lesson Information referring to - the 3d printing process, CAD/CAM, videos, prototypes and how 3D printing has helped in other industries - Health and Food. Students to answer a practice question - PPT includes model answer and encourages students to self reflect and improve their answer.
**Power and Machine tools - PPT and Comprehensive Task
Here you have a PPT displaying the key power tools and machine tools (which are featured in the CGP revision guide) all of the information which the students need to know for the exam are included, as the information has been used from the revision guide. The information is clear and includes images.
You will also receive a comprehensive sheet, which has been differentiated (low and high ability)
It has been advised for the teacher to print most of the ppt slides as flashcard (using the print 6 per page setting) and for the students to complete the comprehensive sheet. The teacher will then dedicate time to run through the questions and answers and the students to self mark.
There is a plenary at the end to encourage students to move around the room and answering/asking as many questions to a peer in 30 seconds.
**Manufactured Boards- PPT and Task Handout
Here you will find a full lesson teaching students about manufactured boards. The PPT contains reliable subject knowledge, images, task sheets (along with mock question & answer) and links to ‘how it’s made’ videos.
The PPT is divided into 3 parts -
Starter - Name that board!
Main - PPT slides clearly run through the 3 main manufactured boards - chipboard, MDF and Plywood. Task handouts encourage students to identify the wood by appearance and match them to their suited product. Students are provided with a mock exam question with answer.
Plenary - Speed Questioning! EXCITING!
**Softwoods and Hardwoods - PPT and task Handout
Here you will find a whole lesson. Resources include PPT and handout x4 sides! (oh not forgetting ALL of the ANSWERS!)
Students will be engaged throughout. The PPT is structured as -
Starter - Catagories and name the 8 soft and hardwoods (visuals shown)
Main - Information about each wood clearly presented, task for students to answer statements about each wood, design task for students to design a product fit for purpose, students collect customer feedback and an informative video showing students the process of how hardwood flooring is made.
Plenary - Referring back to the starter- students will answer and discuss.
Brand New D&T Escape Room - Digital D&T Escape Room - 2nd Generation Virtual Escape Room by Cre8tive Resources! Can you escape the School Before the End of Term? This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your class.
How can this resource be adapted for social distancing?
Upload / send the sheets digitally so students can work independently through them (don’t use the keys or PPT tracker if so)
Could use as part of a Recovery Curriculum
Set the 7 Puzzles for Homework
Pairs instead of groups
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☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking)
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
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They can also be used to encourage a flipped learning environment.
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Why not try out one of our other specialist D&T Resources:
⇨ Design and Technology Christmas Quiz - focus on Graphics
⇨ Why not try out our Design and Technology Escape Room this Christmas
⇨ D&T Christmas Bundle
⇨ 6 Specialist Graphics Task
Sequence of core theory lessons focusing on new and emerging technologies linked to WJEC specification. Topic includes:
The impact of new and emerging technology on industry and enterprise
Global production and its effects on culture and people
Market pull, Technology push and Consumer choice
Product life-cycle
Sustainability
Moral and ethical factors related to manufacturing products and the sale and use of products
Computer-aided design (CAD) & Computer-aided manufacture (CAM)
Legislation to which products are subject
Consumer rights and protection for consumers
7 worksheets for Design Technology in KS3, particularly useful for cover lessons or homework.
Worksheets cover a range of topics including:
Health and Safety in the technology classroom
CAD (computer-aided design)
CAM (computer-aided manufacture)
Tools in the workshop
Tried and tested.
A collection of design and technology starters aimed at GCSE.
Each slide includes a ‘odd one out’ question and a 'what can you see in the picture?'
These are to provoke general discussion and revision.
Also includes the answers.
There was 16 starters in total.
I’ve attached a PDF and powerpoint version of this.
Updated August 2023 with the official summer 2023 grade boundaries. The 2023 paper is now transferred to the summary sheet as the mock examination results. The 2022 paper is now used for the end of theory assessments.
Slight changes to the colour schemes to match the theory pre
Updated August 2022 with the official summer 2022 grade boundaries. The 2021 paper is now transferred to the summary sheet as the mock examination results.
Update December 2021 with the 2020 and 2021 exam papers. The 2020 paper is now used as the mock and the 2019 is used to test the end of all the 50 individual theory lessons.
Updated January 2021 with all the AQA theory mapped over 50 lessons with ongoing assessments. Supporting presentations that match the lessons which are now available!**
This enhanced version of the AQA GCSE tracker has been updated to generate comments from the marks awarded. It has the two AQA specimen papers for reference and the 2019 GCSE paper to use as a final test after the theory lessons. The 2020 examination paper is used as a mock exam which will be added to the NEA assessment to give an accurate prediction based on the previous years’s grade boundaries.
A PDF guide to using the tracker has now been added to the resource.
Please note the Grade Boundary sheet is up to date with the 2019 grade boundaries for both the paper and NEA as of 2021.
To use:
Simply use the Context sheet to enter all student details including candidate number and attainment target.
Use the Comment sheet to award marks for each Assessment Objective and comments will be provided in the boxes for use in CRF’s or reports.
Use the Mock sheet to add the marks from the 2020 paper used as a mock exam.
Use the Theory sheet to help plan out your weekly lessons to ensure all the theory is covered. You can also use this to keep a track of ongoing assessments and it will show an average. It will also allow you to compare a test paper to the final mock to see if the students have improved.
Everything will then be transferred to the front Summary sheet, totals will be generated and levels awarded derived from the existing GCSE boundaries. Old type grades are also provided for reference.
All the cells that do not need editing are locked to avoid making mistakes but the sheet can be unlocked with the password ‘gcse’.
Updated May 2016 with room for 26 student names and added a pie chart to show percentage of students who were above/below target. More can be added if you are comfortable with editing Excel spreadsheets or simply make additional copies of the spreadsheet for the additional students.
If you have less than 26, ensure that there is nothing entered into the A8 column on the context sheet and the pie chart will ignore these when calculating the percentage of students above/below target.
Extra sheets for homework and assessments can be tailored to suit your needs and will not affect the Summary sheet or the predicted levels.
This is a printable guide booklet to give to children which guides them through all sections of the NEA. Each page gives a doodle of what their sketchbook or PowerPoint slide should look like, along with guidance as to what to include in order to meet the mark scheme needs.
The booklet is tried and tested, and I have used this format for many years with great success. This booklet is written specifically for AQA GCSE D&T (latest spec).
Included is a fully editable version (made in PowerPoint), which you could easily modify to OCR etc. too if you so wished.
I have also included a printable booklet of the mark scheme for students and teachers (just a cut down version of the specification), which I find handy for marking, and also a deadline poster for display in the department.
This guide will work with any contextual challenge.
Ks3 homework for Design Technology. It is based on the Nando’s takeaway homework sheets. However, have adapted it for certain areas.
Two for Year 8 & 1 for Year 7.
Please feel free to use and adapt. Good for ideas.
Any feedback appreciated.
Enjoy
If you are looking for a Food Technology based team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to Christmas, then this KS3 Food Technology ESCAPE ROOM is for you! There are seven Christmas inspired - but subject themed (trivia) challenges included in this file. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension,literacy challenges and some clever deduction.
The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more…
Escape Room is fully editable and are easy to set up - Just follow our step by step teacher instructions.
The Escape room lasts just under an hour depending on how quick students can solve each puzzle! If a team finishes early don’t worry we have built in another hidden challenge for them.
Students will start in the Snowfield and solve puzzles along the way through 7 different rooms (Snow field, Scarf, Top Hat, Forest, Carrot and Coal, Wrap A present & a final secret Location) As they solve each Christmas themed puzzle they will collect 1 Piece of the Snowman Puzzle and have to solve the Christmas Cypher.
Food Technology Christmas Escape Room Contents
☞Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Keys (Six Sets for up to Six Teams) Print two copies for up to 12 teams
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles)
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - We do the hard work for you!
☞ Teacher instructions to run the escape
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape for any quick finishing teams :)
☞ The 7 Rooms each have subject specific Puzzles that have been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and are suitable for a variety of students.
☞ A fun, five-minute ★introductory video★ has been included, which will help to set the scene before the escape room is to begin! The video outlines the plot of each escape and provides alternate endings…
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Common FAQ’s
★Group sizes: 3-5 students per team (This can also be completed as an individual and/or pair activity)
★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!)
★Materials: Aside from the materials that you would already have in your classroom (pencils, pens, 6 pairs of scissors), no additional resources are needed!
These escape room-style games were created as a print-and-go resource.
