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.
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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.
Powerpoint presentation covering AQA A-level Business - 3.7.6 Analysing the external environment to assess opportunities and threats: social and technological including:
Social factors
Carrol’s pyramid of corporate social responsibility
CSR
Stakeholders vs Shareholders
Techological factors
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.
This set of resources includes 2x PPTs which can be delivered over 3 lessons (over 65 slides of engaging and interactive learning throughout the bundle).
We start by discussing the different types of social changes that exist before looking at some informative graphs and charts to contextualise understanding. A short exam style question before going on technological changes, again discussion of real life examples for context and a short question. Some true or false questions as a mini plenary and debate.
In the second powerpoint, we focus on corporate social responsibility, lots of real life examples. case studies, videos to help students understand the extent to which businesses are socially responsible (or not) i.e Apple and Primark’s suppliers and tax avoidance by many firms.
We also have a case study on shareholders vs stakeholders, students prepare arguments to present back to the class on whether the firm should aim to satisfy shareholders or stakeholders, this can be answered as a 24 mark exam style question with a peer assessment grid to follow.
Colourful, concise and engaging slides!
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Design and technology sustainability and the environment lesson resource - colourful, informative, visually engaging resource for a lesson covering environmental, social and ethical factors and questions to finish. Suitable for ks3 and ks4
Technology and the environment lesson for Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Computer Science (4CP0), with editable PowerPoint slides, a student worksheet and full answers. Digital technology affects the environment through energy use, manufacturing and e-waste; students weigh the harms against the benefits.
Written for Topic 6 The bigger picture (spec 6.1.1). Everything is editable, so you can adapt it to your class.
What’s included
PowerPoint lesson (16 slides) with teacher notes on every slide
Student worksheet (Word), ready to print or edit
Answer sheet (Word) with mark-scheme style answers for every question
ED6.01 Technology and the environment
By the end of the lesson students can:
Describe ways that using technology can harm and help people’s health
Explain how the energy used by devices and data centres affects the environment, and how it can be cut
Explain the impact of the resources used to make devices and of e-waste, and how it can be reduced
Worksheet sections: A. Key words; B. Sort the impacts; C. E-waste in numbers; D. Exam-style questions; E. Challenge
Every lesson includes
Learning goals and a starter question
Clear explanations, diagrams and worked examples (Python 3 throughout, with Pearson pseudocode alongside)
A quick check and a “your turn” task linked to the worksheet
Exam-style questions with marks, and an exit ticket
Format
PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx), fully editable
Works in PowerPoint and Google Slides
Bright, clear GCSE design, consistent across the whole course
These are independent resources written for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9–1) Computer Science specification (4CP0, Issue 1). They are not produced or endorsed by Pearson. Spec point numbers are Pearson’s, with a letter added where we split a statement across lessons.
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Technology and the environment lesson for Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Computer Science (4CP0): a free lesson with editable PowerPoint slides and a student worksheet. Digital technology affects the environment through energy use, manufacturing and e-waste; students weigh the harms against the benefits.
This free version includes the slides and the student worksheet. The answers are not included.
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The whole topic: The bigger picture – Edexcel IGCSE Computer Science (5 lessons)
Last updated: November 2026.
A KS3 project (year 8 or 9).
A project written for an environment without powerpoints and interactive boards. It hangs on the initial two lessons researching into pop up mechanisms and then pop out mechanisms. Students practically manufacture a range of them, but also record and analyse the mechanisms in a work booklet.
The remaining weeks focus on concept designs, then developments and a final working card.
Included are all the resources (templates & handouts) along with lots of exemplars from previous students.
A complete student workbook designed for the AQA GCSE History (9–1) Elizabethan England 2026 Historic Environment: The Spanish Armada (1588).
This 30+ page workbook is fully aligned to the specification and provides structured, ready-to-use activities that guide students through the entire topic while building key exam skills.
Accompanying PPT’s sold separately
What’s included? - This workbook covers the full Historic Environment in a clear, student-friendly format:
Causes of the Armada - Students analyse religion, politics, trade, and key individuals using structured tables and judgement tasks (see page 2).
Planning & Delay - Breakdown of Philip II’s invasion plan, including strengths, weaknesses, and evaluation of whether it was realistic (pages 5–7).
Drake & Cadiz - Exploration of the ‘Singeing of the King of Spain’s Beard’, including immediate and long-term consequences (page 8).
The English vs Spanish Navies - Clear comparison of ships, tactics, leadership, and technology (page 11), helping students explain why England had the advantage.
The Armada Campaign - Step-by-step narrative of events from July–September 1588 (page 15), supported by maps and structured explanation tasks.
Reasons for Failure - Students categorise causes into leadership, tactics, environment, and communication (page 18), building evaluative thinking.
Consequences - Covers economic, religious, political, and cultural impacts (page 23), including propaganda and Elizabeth’s image.
GCSE Exam Practice (Q4 – 16 marks) - Includes model answers, planning grids, and scaffolds to help students achieve top-level responses (pages 25–26).
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.
Aligned to AQA DT specification. Core Technical Principles: Environment.
This package is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying worksheet that can be used as a complete lesson or as cover work.
AQA DT spec content covered is:
Positive and negative impacts new products have on the environment:
continuous improvement
efficient working
pollution
global warming.
Tried and tested. A strong, effective resource
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
Within Chapter 3 - Implications of wider issues, this PPT looks specifically at the impacts of new and emerging technologies when developing design solutions on the environment covering:
Planned Obsolescence
Sustainability
The 6R’s
Circular economy
Cradle to Cradle
Consumer Impact
AQA Geography GCSE Lesson - Challenges in the Human Environment -Changing Economic World - Development Gap - Reducing the Gap - Aid and Intermediate Technology
Students will learn about:
How investment, Industrial development and tourism can reduced the development gap.
Which strategies can reduce the development gap
How different forms of aid can aid development and reduce the development gap
How industrial development can help reduce the development gap.
How tourism can help reduce the development gap
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
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.
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 whole school assembly explores World Environment Day: what it is, how technology supports beating plastic pollution and how children make a change. This informative assembly, covering geography curriculum links ends with ideas for a continuation of World Environment Day back in the classroom with computing curriculum inspired lesson ideas and links to resources.
Learning objectives:
To understand what World Environment Day is.
To learn how technology is used to support positive environmental changes
To learn ways to take action to reduce climate change and pollution.