In this lesson, Students will understand that modern technology has benefited human beings by increasing production of goods and services, reducing the amount of labour needed to produce these goods and services, and …
This pack includes a starter, a powerpoint and lesson plan.
This Bundle includes resources aimed at raising students awareness of the environmental impact of design and energy uses.
The sustainability lesson focusses on the 6R's, Carbon Footprints and Product Life Cycles.
The energy lessons focus on the pros and cons of various energy sources.
The lessons are interactive and require full student participation.
I hope you enjoy this resource.
In this lesson, students work in groups to investigate different items of Aboriginal technology. They then share their findings through a marketplace activity before designing a leaflet detailing the nature of Aboriginal technology.
This paper examines ways in which the idea of cognitive conflict is used to facilitate learning, looking at the design and use of learning environments for this purpose. Drawing on previous work in science education and educational computing, three approaches to the design of learning environments utilizing cognitive conflict are introduced. These approaches are described as confrontational, guiding and explanatory, based on the level of the designer's concern with learners&' pre-existing understanding.
This bundle includes worksheets and assessment tasks for studying Built Environments (Mandatory Technology - Australian Curriculum) and instructions for using Sweet Home 3D freeware for interior design.
All the resources necessary for teaching this particular unit of work.
A lesson on the impact that Computer Science Technology is having on the environment. This links into the 9-1 specifications.
Lesson resources includes - power point, exam question writing frame and a research table.
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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Product Contents:
☞ 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
☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student
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We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Our Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved.
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The 7 Rooms include: Playground, Hallway F, English Classroom, Never Ending Basement, Heads Office, The Library and Finally the Secret Laboratory (Each Puzzle has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student.
JUST PRINT AND GO!
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
This 17 page student workbook is designed as a unit resource for the teaching of Mandatory Technology - Built Environments (Australian Curriculum) It looks at the issues of building for climate and environment and engages students in thinking about and developing their own designs for energy efficient and sustainable housing.
A full series of lessons around the topic suited to the current spec for exams or the new spec.
You can collapse down some of the product analysis sessions for example and condense for a revision session.
The sustainability dice is best made on a 8 sided packaging net or use a 6 sided dice net and get them to pick the 6 form the 8 available
This theory unit was written by my colleague Arthur Kerr and edited by myselfIt was written for the Scottish National 4/5 Computing course but could easily be used with other exam systems.
It covers:
- Networking
- Security
- Legality
- Environment
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A comprehensive series of multimedia materials to support the teaching of the GCSE Design and Technology Food Technology course. The materials can be downloaded as a complete Moodle course or as individual elements. The bilingual resources include video clips, animations, text and quizzes within Moodle and can be used on an interactive whiteboard for whole class teaching or by students on individual computers. The images included in this work, to the best of our knowledge, are from sources that their use do not breach any copyright rules. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
Recycle and upcycle club - Use this resource to lead your children in helping the environment. Children will learn how to recycle and upcycle household items into exciting and beautiful crafts, gadgets and toys. Applying knowledge from core subjects, children can explore design technology, science and art.
This lesson explores how food production can contribute to climate change and also how climate change impacts food production. This also includes differentiated worksheets.
An excellent powerpoint for starting the new Level 1/2 Construction and built environment specification for teaching from 2022
Unit 1 Introduction to the Built Environment:
AC 1.5 Building Structures and Forms
Lesson by lesson teaching powerpoints with levelled learning objectives and student tasks incoorperated. Tasks can be printed directly out from powerpoint and given to students- there is a mixture of learning opportunities and room for adapting tasks to higher or lower students. Each lesson has a starter and a plenary.
This resource will drastically reduce your planning time
I have included useful links in the notes of the powerpoint for more information into different topics
This resource is one of the 8 Assessment Criteria for Unit 1. They can be purchased individually but are also available as part of my EDUQAS Construction Unit 1 Resource Bundle
A double sided worksheet which could be used for both GCSE or GCE DT (any exam board). Although this was designed for AQA.
The worksheet focuses on working out the volumne of LEGO bricks as well as questions on their manufacture (polymer revision links) and environmental considerations with the polymer LEGO is made from. Could be used as a revision or homework task.
13 slide power point incorporating student centered activities analysing the effects of bad packaging on the environment.
Aimed at KS4 but could also be incorporated into KS3 and KS5 schemes.
Challenges in the Human Environment Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Aid and Intermediate Technology
This lesson is suitable for Key Stage 4 AQA Geography GCSE geography students. The lesson is suitable for a single 50 minutes - 1 hour lesson. Students will learn about:
How different forms of aid can aid development
How intermediate / appropriate technology can aid development
How NGO’s can aid development through providing goats to families
This lesson includes
Starter
Embedded videos
Differentiation for different abilities
Worksheet and resources for printing
Visit www.easygeography.co.uk to download this and 100’s of other Geography lessons