This lesson is an excellent, accessible introduction into wood theory or KS3, 4 or 5. It is essential that design technology and/or product design students know this as part of their theory, ready for assessments. The lesson covers hardwoods, softwoods and manufactured boards, wood examples and their respective properties and manufacturing (felled, formed and finished) through various activities. Included is also a video on plywood production, worksheets and home learning tasks.

A Yr7 project that has been developed so that it can be delivered by non-specialists as well as specialist D&T teachers. The resource has an animated teacher presentation with an accompanying comprehensive student work book. The project practical outcome is a mechanical grabbing device that uses 3mm plywood levers and 6mm MDF handles and jaws, assembled using lock nuts, bolts and PVA glue - all instructions are illustrated in both attached resources. The project spans 14 one hour lessons, though can be lengthened or shortened as both resources are editable MS PowerPoints. Lessons have retrieval practice question starters, and there are extended learning tasks every two lessons (these are detachable sheets from the back of the workbook). Maths and reading comprehension tasks are also included. Lesson 6 has been allocated as a DIT lesson. Topics covered include: Designers and their designs, biomimicry, workshop safety, timbers, workshop tools and equipment, simple machines with a focus on levers, stock forms of timber, the design process, scaling drawings, workshop practical , testing and evaluating. Lesson 14 has a 20 mark assessment which again can be extended if needed. The lesson sequence is as follows: L1 - What is a Design Brief L1&2 - How Do We Make a Mechanism? L3&4 - What Are Levers & Simple Machines? L5 - Which Material and Tools? L6 - DIT - Dedicated Improvement Time L7 - How Does Research & Analysis Help Designing? L8 - What Does Developing A Design Mean? L9 - Creating and Using Templates L10&11 - How Do We Shape MDF? L11&12 - Decorating & Assembling L13 - Testing & Evaluating. L14 - Assessment. I have used this for two years now making changes as I have taught it. I feel that this project format works extremely well. Where I have had split groups with non-specialists, they have taught the workbook/theory side of things, and I have done the practical aspects. Prep info: the plywood is precut to 200mm lengths at 25mm wide. The MDF is supplied to the students as two times 100mmx100mm pieces (though this is generous!). Jigs were made for the drilling of the holes for the bolts to assure accuracy and uniformity.

Resistant Materials - Simple display with examples for wood, plastics and metals materials97 is saved as windows 1997

The boat project is a resistant materials project designed mainly for year 10 pupils but can be used for KS3 or KS4 pupils. This project is a skills based activity to teach pupils how to use tools in the workshop safely as well as teaching them basic wood working skills which are needed when developing the subject knowledge leading up to GCSE resistant materials. In the project the user will create a wooden boat and high impact polystyrene flags and sails using step by step guides and tutorials. This tutorial has curriculum links with maths with regard to the marking out and measuring accurately. The tutorial includes: A3 display worksheets. A4 booklet worksheets. Power point tutorial. 2D design boat steering wheel template. Exemplar product photo’s. Assessment sheets.

This lesson is designed for the KS3 Year 8 Science course, specifically the P2 1.1 unit on ‘Electricity & Magnetism’. The lesson begins with an introduction to resistance, students are provided with a definition which they can write down in their books, as well as a diagram to depict what happens to electrons as they flow around the metal wires within a circuit. Students will then complete a ‘copy-and-complete’ task, this can be marked using the mark scheme provided. Students are now asked to ‘Think > Pair > Share’ their ideas about whether the thickness of the wire would affect the resistance of the wire. Students will discuss their ideas with their peers, share their ideas with the class and then watch a video to find out the answer. Students can then summarise their findings in their books by completing a fill-in-the-blank task, this can then be self-assessed once complete. Students will now be introduced to Ohm’s law, which links the resistance of a component to the current running through it and potential difference across it. Students will be given an equation triangle, they can copy this down into their books and use this to complete the set of problems on the next slide. This work can be marked and corrected once complete. Lastly, students are asked to ‘Think > Pair > Share’ their ideas about which materials are good conductors and insulators. Students can discuss their ideas and write them down into their books, answers are then revealed for students to check their work against. The last assessment task is a ‘Copy and correct’ task, students are given a paragraph of information which they will need to copy and correct the mistakes as they go. Once complete, this can be marked using the mark scheme provided. The plenary task is a choice of two tasks - to summarise what students have learned in three sentences or to write a definition for a set of key words. All resources are included at the end of the presentation, thanks for looking, if you have any questions please let me know in the comments section and any feedback would be appreciated :)

The Transatlantic Slave Trade KS3 This lesson examines the different punishments that the slaves endured on the plantations and their resistance and survival strategies. Different sources are analysed showing the positive and negative aspects of plantation life as students have to extract fact from fiction. Students then look at the different forms of resistance from passive to active resistance and decide the best and most effective form of resistance, justifying their reasons. There is also a chance of being more interactive as students are selected to take on some forms resistance which the class have to find out and decide. The lesson is enquiry based with a key question using a lightbulb posed at the start of the lesson and revisited to show the progress of learning. The resource includes suggested teaching strategies, retrieval practice, differentiated materials and comes in Powerpoint format if there is a wish to adapt and change.

This is a revision or crib sheet showing some tools and processes for wood, metal and plastic working.

This is an electronically editable research task consisting of 12 pages. Learners to find out the working properties, physical properties, applications and other information as appropriate and record their findings in the tables. It is based on the AQA GCSE Design & Technology specification and includes the following materials: Manufactured boards Softwoods Hardwoods Thermoplastics Thermosetting plastics Non-ferrous metals Ferrous metals Alloys A PDF version is also provided to allow the resource to be printed where learners have limited ICT access.

Students work in teams. Students start by rolling the dice and moving the counter to select the colour, the colour corresponds to a card. Learners select the coloured card and draw for the group the tool, process etc. on the card. This can be done as a group on the whiteboard or in teams/pairs on paper. The student who guesses the tool, process being drawn wins the point for their team. A great activity for a fun lesson starter and for revision.

Students work in two teams. Students start by rolling the dice and moving the counter to select the colour, the colour corresponds to a card. Learners select the coloured card and describe to the group the tool, process etc. on the card. The learner who guesses the tool, process being described wins the point for their team. A great whole class activity.

Each learner in the group is given a card. Each card has one question and one answer on it. The first learner reads their question and the group discuss the answer. The person who has the correct answer on their card puts their answer down next to the question and asks their question to the group. This continues until all questions have been asked and the answer and dominoes are linked together. A great revision tool and whole class activity. Designed for Edexcel specification but can also works for any Resistant Materials course.

Can be used as a whole class activity or small groups or pairs. One player spins the wheel and it will land on a colour. They then collect the coloured card matching the colour on the wheel and read the question to the other player. The person with the card then attempts to answer the question on the card to gain the marks for the question. If they are unable to do so this can be passed to other player to answer. A great revision tool which is engaging and fun for the group. Idea for the Edexcel syllabus but will apply for any resistant materials group.

A great revision lesson! Each learner is given an Bingo card with answers to questions. The teacher can then shuffle the question cards and pick a question to read to the group. Learners then search their cards for the answer. The first learner to achieve a completed line wins. Includes 20 Bingo cards, teachers question cards with answers and a PowerPoint with questions to show to the class, slides can be shuffled to create a random order.

Starter or keyword revision activity

A simple worksheet that could be used as cover work or part of a lesson.

36 PAGES (!!) (A4) OF STUDY NOTES ON RESISTANT MATERIALS CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES including wood , metal and plastics. includes colour photos and diagrams

Grade descriptors for research, generating ideas, making and evaluating. These pages were created based around the new grade descriptors of 1-9 taking the main points that I expected pupils to meet within each of the areas. The pages include a space for self, peer and teacher grades and were added into work booklets to help pupils understand how to achieve a higher grade.

A few games to help revise resistant materials. Also a random name generator for two teams to compete against each other.