I have created this planner to help my GCSE students with planning out the making of their final design. It is on Powerpoint so can be editted and shown to the class. I have also used this with my A level group with their NEA too. Best printed out on A3.
It has 4 pages:
Page 1: a space for the student to do a rough sketch of their design, plan and tick off what processes to use, a list of the materials they could use. I have also taken this as their teacher and photocopied it so I have a image of their final design.
Pages 2 and 3
Processes pages detailing the main processes used in schools, separated into materials. It lists the pros and cons of each of the processes and describes them briefly. It also has images to illustrate the processes
Page 4
Has a long list of material properties to help students explain in their NEA why they are using them. It also has a list of questions to help students consider and decide what materials they are going to use using the correct terminology.
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Designing questions (TIMBERS):
This 14 page Publisher booklet is based on the new Edexcel Product Design exam specification. I have analysed the sample exam papers we have been given and created a booklet of the three main types of designing questions that appear on the exam paper which roughly speaking are: improve, analyse and convert.
There are 4 questions on the improve and convert and 6 on the analyse questions.
This is based on the Timbers exam paper but could be easily be adapted to be used for the other material areas.
I have also developed a booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques both for Timbers and Paper and Boards.
NOTE: I have designed these questions in the hope that the trend in these questions continues. This booklet focuses on the area of designing and has a lot of similar practice questions. The hope is by repeating these style of questions that the students will understand what the exam paper is after.
A handout and brainstorm showing the modelling materials commonly used in design and technology. In a brainstorm on one side and pictures on the other.
I came up with this for the week commencing January 4th - for remote learning in Design and Technology. It is a powerpoint that can be set for students on remote learning platforms such as Teams or Google classrooms. It is suitable for most secondary year groups and it could be made more complex or simple if required.
Students are given a list of designers (see below) to chose from, they have to chose one and do 3 tasks on them - investigating their work and then designing in the style of them.
There are examples of all the designers work on the powerpoint to give students a feel for their work and the students (lower ability) could use the examples on the powerpoint to analyse.
I have also done an example of the kind of work I would expect the students to complete and an assessment criteria which teachers could use by highlighting and getting the best fit for assessment. This makes the marking of the work very easy to do.
The designers I have chosen also fall into 6 categories and I have chosen ones that are in the AQA Design and Technology specification.
They are as follows:
PRODUCT DESIGNERS:
i) Marcel Breuer ii) Ettore Sottsass iii) Phillippe Stark
ARCHITECTS:
i) Norman Foster ii) Zara Hadid iii) Charles Rennie Macintosh
JEWELLERY DESIGNERS/COMPANIES:
i) Raymond Templier ii) Tatty Devine iii) Georg Jensen
FASHION DESIGNERS/COMPANIES:
i) Alexander McQueen ii) Vivian Westwood iii) Under Armour
ENGINEERS:
i) James Dyson ii) Elon Musk iii) Neri Oxman
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS:
i) Harry Beck ii) Alex Trochut iii) Susan Kare
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques style questions (TIMBERS):
This 30 page Publisher booklet is based on the new Edexcel Design and Technology exam specification. I have analysed the sample exam papers we have been given and created a booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques questions that appear on the exam paper.
In the beginning there are introductory pages on:-
the breakdown of the exam questions and the style they have done in the past;
core materials and the properties the students needs to know;
the timber materials and properties they need to know;
the tools and techniques they need to know;
plus some pages on how to describe the properties of materials.
The rest of the booklet consists of four styles of questions:
core material property questions (3 for each material - so 15 in total);
core material property questions which require a single property answer and are at the beginning of the paper (30 of these);
questions that start with a particular product and lead into other manufacturing issues (there are 6 of these);
questions that ask the students to use notes and diagrams to explain a making process (there are 4 of these).
I have also developed a booklet like this for papers and boards and one on Designing questions for Timbers - this could be adapted for other material areas quite easily.
NOTES: I have designed these questions in the hope that the trend in these questions continues. This booklet focuses on the area of materials, processes and techniques and has a lot of similar practice questions. The hope is by repeating these style of questions that the students will understand what the exam paper is after.
Also on pages 11,13,15,17 and 19 there are spaces - I copied and pasted in some of the questions from the Pearson text book (which I can’t do) in here which you could do. There is an answer book to the questions too on the Edexcel website.
This is an Excel spreadsheet with 4 worksheets on it - one for each of the exam papers AQA has brought out from 2019 to 2022.
Each one is a sheet that will allow you to put in your student’s names and marks for each question. There is a summary of the question’s theme or topic too. I have also highlighted the maths and drawing questions. This allows you to then see where there are any common areas of misconceptions and weaknesses. It is also gives a RAG/traffic light colour per question. So allows you to easily audit how students did. It also adds up thir marks for all 3 sections and adds up the totals. On each worksheet I have also put in the NEA and Exam grade boundaries. There is also a link to the PDF of the grade boundaries. Great to assess your students and saves you adding up their marks too. Particularly useful for mock exams.
A powerpoint presentation of some of the main art and design eras of the last 100 years. It includes: Cubism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, 21st Century design. On each slide there are examples of the sort of style it is and then below are modern designs that are inspired by the era itself. The presentation includes art work, furniture, graphics and architecture in it’s examples.
Perfect for a whistle stop tour of design in the last century!
This Unit of work is a project designing and making a sweet dispenser.
The project has the following resources (9 files):
Lessons Powerpoint (16 slides) which includes lesson objectives, assessment objectives and examples
Design specification worksheet
Examples of sweet dispensers
Types of sweet dispensers
Ergonomics and Anthropmetrics worksheets
Machinery handouts for hand router, morticer, lathe and pillar drill
Detailed explanation of how to make 4 different types of sweet dispenser - *waterfall, downfall, jar and shaped
Cutting list and final idea worksheet
A homework sheet with 3 homeworks that compliment the project designing another product that can dispense.
I ran this project with year 9s and used it as a way to improve more technical machine skills and I ran demonstrations on the router, lathe, pillar drill and morticer.
The four different types of sweet dispenser* I have shown how to make have varying levels of skill which allows for easy differentiation. It is also a project that allows students to develop their independent working skills.
This is a list of questions taken from the Edexcel GCSE Design and Technology assessment criteria put in pupil speak. There is also a chart showing the breakdown of the marks for each section and a glossary at the back of the language used.
I designed these projects for our KS3 Design and Technology groups in order to provide the students with work they could do at home with minimal need for teacher input, materials or equipment. Each project also ramps up in terms of introducing students to working within the parameters of a context as well. We use AQA for Food and DT GCSE and these projects link to these specifications in particular.
At my school we do rotations of STEM, Product Design, Food and Textiles which these are designed for. They could be easily adapted to suit your DT areas.
The tasks are broken down into INVESTIGATE, DESIGN, MAKE and EVALUATE tasks.
This is an outline of the projects:
Year 7 - students are investigating, designing and making products for British Airways who are planning to start a (fictious) airline that will travel into space.
Year 8 - students are investigating, designing and making products around the context of festivals. There are a range possible outcomes for each area.
Year 9 -students are investigating, designing and making products around the context of sustainable lifestyles. There are a range possible outcomes for each area.
NOTE:
The files you will receive are Publisher and PDF documents. I use slightly unusual fonts so your program may not recognise them. Apologies for that but hopefully you will format in your own style.
This is a generic introduction to using 2D design. A four page resource that goes through the tools of the program. You may need to add how your students get to the program as this instructs you to get to it via the Windows icon.
Page 1 is a task where students can write in their own words what the tools are and what they do
Page 2 is the answers to this - with the tool names that Tech Soft use
Page 3 is a more pupil speak explanation of the tools
Page 4 are a couple of basic tasks they can start off doing - one drawing a face and the other is a house. Both have extension tasks for more able students to do as well.
The document is on Publisher and is best printed out in colour.
Could also be used as a display or general helpsheet for 2D Design.
A 5 page document that explains how to do: draw a sized template, how to trace over an image, how to draw a letter and contour it (to make a press form mould) and how to mirror a shape to make a heart all on 2 D design.
I made this resource for a GCSE graphics group. It explains the processes you can use in school to make architectural and graphic models.
The materials and processes it covers are:
Laser cutting – foam board, wood, plastic, card, fabric
3 D printing
Vacuum forming
Foam cutting and shaping – hot wire, hand tools, bandsaw
Pewter casting
Sublimation printing
Embossing
Hot foil blocking
Cutting and shaping wood/plastic/metal
Working with plaster and Modroc
It also has brainstorms of the materials broken down into cutting/shaping, finishing, forming and fixing.
On the last slide there are places where you can buy materials and some links to videos onto how to make architectural models using foamboard. It is a 30 slide presentation and is aimed at Key stage 4 students, but would also be suitable for Key stage 3 students if broken down into a number of lessons.
A publisher in booklet form - 17 pages of DT help pages plus 3 pages for notes. This is a resource that can be used to aid written and coursework. It is excellent for helping students use a wider vocabulary and has prompts to assist in particular with analysis, evaluation and describing products.
It includes a list of useful words and questions when analysing products, brainstorms on:- product analysis, processes with wood, metal, plastic and paper/card. It also has images of tools and materials. It could be used for KS3 - KS5. It was designed for a group who were designing lights and signage and does make references to this in places but you could adapt it to suit your projects.
This is a project ideally for year 7 as an introduction to the workshop. It could be adapted for other years.
Pupils design and make a money box based on an animal design of their choice. The box is made out of pine, MDF, plywood and a HIPs lid. There are two wood joints a comb joint and a dowel joint.
There are 14 resources in this project and some things could be used in other projects.
I taught this to a wide range of students and they all loved it.
I do also have some predesigned animal parts drawn out on 2D Design wich I cannot download on TES. Email me if you want me to send this to you (sarahwollerton@hotmail.com).
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques style questions (PAPER & BOARDS):
This 27 page Publisher booklet is based on the new Edexcel Product Design exam specification. I have analysed the sample exam papers we have been given and created a booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques questions that appear on the exam paper.
In the beginning there are introductory pages on:-
the breakdown of the exam questions and the style they have done in the past;
core materials and the properties the students needs to know;
the paper and boards and properties they need to know;
the tools and techniques they need to know;
plus some pages on how to describe the properties of materials.
The rest of the booklet consists of four styles of questions:
core material property questions (3 for each material - so 15 in total);
core material property questions which require a single property answer and are at the beginning of the paper (30 of these);
questions that start with a particular product and lead into other manufacturing issues (there are 6 of these);
questions that ask the students to use notes and diagrams to explain a making process (there are 2 of these).
I have also developed a booklet like this for Timbers and one on Designing questions for Timbers - this could be adapted for other material areas quite easily.
NOTES: I have designed these questions in the hope that the trend in these questions continues. This booklet focuses on the area of materials, processes and techniques and has a lot of similar practice questions. The hope is by repeating these style of questions that the students will understand what the exam paper is after.
Also on pages 10,12,14,16 and 18 there are spaces - I copied and pasted in some of the questions from the Pearson text book (which I can’t do) in here which you could do. There is an answer book to the questions too on the Edexcel website.
This is a bundle of 3 resources:
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Designing questions (TIMBERS)
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques style questions (TIMBERS)
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques style questions (PAPERS & BOARDS)
Further description:
This 14 page Publisher booklet is based on the new Edexcel Design and Technology exam specification. I have analysed the sample exam papers we have been given and created a booklet of the three main types of designing questions that appear on the exam paper which roughly speaking are: improve, analyse and convert.
There are 4 questions on the improve and convert and 6 on the analyse questions.
This is based on the Timbers exam paper but could be easily be adapted to be used for the other material areas.
NOTE: I have designed these questions in the hope that the trend in these questions continues. This booklet focuses on the area of designing and has a lot of similar practice questions. The hope is by repeating these style of questions that the students will understand what the exam paper is after.
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques style questions (TIMBERS):
This 30 page Publisher booklet is based on the new Edexcel Design and Technology exam specification. I have analysed the sample exam papers we have been given and created a booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques questions that appear on the exam paper.
In the beginning there are introductory pages on:-
the breakdown of the exam questions and the style they have done in the past;
core materials and the properties the students needs to know;
the timber materials and properties they need to know;
the tools and techniques they need to know;
plus some pages on how to describe the properties of materials.
The rest of the booklet consists of four styles of questions:
core material property questions (3 for each material - so 15 in total);
core material property questions which require a single property answer and are at the beginning of the paper (30 of these);
questions that start with a particular product and lead into other manufacturing issues (there are 6 of these);
questions that ask the students to use notes and diagrams to explain a making process (there are 4 of these).
NOTES: I have designed these questions in the hope that the trend in these questions continues. This booklet focuses on the area of materials, processes and techniques and has a lot of similar practice questions. The hope is by repeating these style of questions that the students will understand what the exam paper is after.
Also on pages 11,13,15,17 and 19 there are spaces - I copied and pasted in some of the questions from the Pearson text book (which I can’t do) in here which you could do. There is an answer book to the questions too on the Edexcel website.
Edexcel Design and Technology Revision booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques style questions (PAPER & BOARDS):
This 27 page Publisher booklet is based on the new Edexcel PDesign and Technology exam specification. I have analysed the sample exam papers we have been given and created a booklet on Materials, Processes and Techniques questions that appear on the exam paper.
In the beginning there are introductory pages on:-
the breakdown of the exam questions and the style they have done in the past;
core materials and the properties the students needs to know;
the paper and boards and properties they need to know;
the tools and techniques they need to know;
plus some pages on how to describe the properties of materials.
The rest of the booklet consists of four styles of questions:
core material property questions (3 for each material - so 15 in total);
core material property questions which require a single property answer and are at the beginning of the paper (30 of these);
questions that start with a particular product and lead into other manufacturing issues (there are 6 of these);
questions that ask the students to use notes and diagrams to explain a making process (there are 2 of these).
NOTES: I have designed these questions in the hope that the trend in these questions continues. This booklet focuses on the area of materials, processes and techniques and has a lot of similar practice questions. The hope is by repeating these style of questions that the students will understand what the exam paper is after.
Also on pages 10,12,14,16 and 18 there are spaces - I copied and pasted in some of the questions from the Pearson text book (which I can’t do) in here which you could do. There is an answer book to the questions too on the Edexcel website.
I produced these Fact Files for students to use to develop their knowledge of the materials: Timbers, Metals and Polymers. There is an A3 sheet for each material area.
They cover the following aspects (which relate to the AQA DT requirements):
Categories
Impact on society
Stock forms
Sources
Environmental impact
In PDF format and are best printed in A3.
This is a mini Christmas project you can do with any secondary year group. It is based on making a batch of a product to sell. The product is a paper wrapper round a lolly. The example is a reindeer but the idea is to come up with their own design.
Areas that you could extend from this project include:
Scale of production
CAD vs handmade
Design iterations
Relate to factory production line
Economical use of materials
Profit margins
Properties of paper
Target market
Quality assurance and control
Tolerances and measuring - you could use other lollies
Included in the powerpoint is the 2D Design of the reindeer that can be copy and pasted into 2 D design. I have also included making tips and teacher’s notes on what materials to use and the lollies I used.
68 TIMBERS tools and equipment with images and explanation on how they work.
With the possibility of no making in the GCSEs I decided to come up with this resource to help students understand making processes. The document is in a flash cards format. There are 33 pages each with 4 different tools/equipment on there (68 tools in total). It can be printed (after page 3, flipping on the short edge) and laminated to become a resource that can be used for other year groups too. I have also categorised them into areas that AQA use in the exam such as wasting.
It has 68 different tools and equipment and covers what would say is all the tools and equipment for making with timbers. On the back is a description, tips, health and safety and what materials it can be used with. There are some crossovers and overlaps with other materials and some relate to metals.
I am also planning to do ones for the other material areas.
NOTE: This is not to serve in anyway as a health and safety training resource. Any D and T training should be carried out by the teacher in accordance to their school and department’s Health and safety protocols.
I designed this SOW for remote learning. It is suitable for KS3 and we have set it for years 7,8 and 9. There is work for 8 x 1 hour lessons and it has a powerpoint for each lesson. There is also a booklet and other useful resources. I can be done with or without the booklet. The work can be done on a computer or by hand.
The tasks are set with easier and harder versions for differentiation and there is a 3 level assessment criteria for simple marking.
Students start off by having a choice of two problems to solve:
CHOICE 1: Teenagers are increasingly spending too long on screens. Smyths toy shop want to increase their sales of board games to try and get teens off their screens
CHOICE 2: Children and teens get bored on long journeys. Come up with a travel game that will keep them entertained.
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