Homework Booklets — AQA GCSE Design and Technology — Whole Specification in Detail — & Answers

Homework Booklets — AQA GCSE Design and Technology — Whole Specification in Detail — Includes Answers
Give students purposeful practice across the entire specification while keeping workload low. Each homework page is student-friendly, builds from recall to application and evaluation, and comes with a complete answer set for self-marking or rapid feedback. Ideal for weekly homework, intervention, cover and revision. Develops recall, application, analysis and evaluation, with explicit command-word practice and clear “how to answer” steps. A4, black-and-white friendly, minimal prep. Save hours of planning: fully mapped to the whole specification, print-and-go, with answers included. Developed by an experienced UK teacher with the support of AI-assisted planning tools to ensure consistency, clarity and full-spec coverage. This is for secondary classes needing structured homework, retrieval, intervention or revision across a full course specification. Set one page per week or build half-term packs. Use self-check and answers for independent marking, or project answers for whole-class feedback. Mix and match tasks for targeted practice.
What’s inside
Whole-spec coverage: all topics and sub-topics mapped in detail.

Consistent structure per task set:
• Quick Recall (core facts)
• Core Practice (structured questions using varied command words)
• Apply It (realistic scenario, parts A–C)
• PIXL Mini-Task (Odd One Out / Always–Sometimes–Never / Convince Me)
• Literacy Boost (command words with one-line meanings plus an exam-style question with marks and step-by-step “How to answer”)
• Reduce It 30–3–2–1 (summarise and select key information)
• Self-Check (success criteria)
• Stretch Challenge (higher-order task)

Answers included: model points, indicative methods and concise mark guidance.

Editable file (Word/Docs) + ready-to-print PDF

Student homework pages covering the whole specification in detail

Complete answer pack for every task

3.1.1 - New and emerging technologies
3.1.2 - Energy generation and storage
3.1.3 - Developments in new materials
3.1.4 - Systems approach to designing
3.1.5 - Mechanical devices
3.1.6 - Materials and their working
3.1.7 - Common specialist technical
3.2.1 - Selection of materials or
3.2.2 - Forces and stresses
3.2.3 - Ecological and social footprint
3.2.4 - The six Rs
3.2.5 - Scales of production
3.2.6 - Sources and origins
3.3.1 - Investigation, primary and
3.3.2 - Environmental, social and
3.3.3 - The work of others
3.3.4 - Design strategies
3.3.5 - Communication of design ideas
3.3.6 - Prototype development
3.3.7 - Selection of materials and
3.3.8 - Tolerances
3.3.9 - Material management
3.3.10 - Specialist tools and equipment
3.3.11 - Quality control