We provide high quality resources that help pupils to improve their results in the STEM subjects. Our team includes award winning teachers and former senior and principal examiners from across a range of examination bodies. We understand that raising attainment and supporting the progress of learners is key to developing outstanding learning and teaching.
We provide high quality resources that help pupils to improve their results in the STEM subjects. Our team includes award winning teachers and former senior and principal examiners from across a range of examination bodies. We understand that raising attainment and supporting the progress of learners is key to developing outstanding learning and teaching.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in energy and forces. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, which has been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This resource contains over 80 slides. Its objective is to support literacy and numeracy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in designing and design issues. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions, anagrams and numeracy problems. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, which has been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This resource contains over 70 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in electronic, programmable and mechanical systems. The slides include electronic symbols, component recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the OCR specification, which has now been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in environmental, ecological and social Issues. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, which has been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in environmental, ecological, social and ethical issues. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the OCR specification, which has now been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This resource contains over 60 slides. Its objective is to support literacy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms in energy generation and storage. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the OCR specification, which has now been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
Create outstanding customised plenaries for your Engineering class projects in minutes!
A key topic in GCSE Engineering courses is working, or orthographic, drawings. However, examiners have frequently found that questions about working drawings are often answered very badly. This starter supports knowledge recall, to support pupils towards raising their exam performance.
This resource contains over 70 PowerPoint slides, designed to support literacy in technology. They include image and feature recognition, missing word sentences and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own projects.
This is suitable for use at Key Stage 3 or to support GCSE Engineering. It is supplied with an example plenary created using the resource, which has been used in the classroom with great success.
This is a PowerPoint explaining the common command words that could be used in exam questions for the subject, alongside a sample question and answer for each type of question.
In order to maximise exam performance, it is vital that pupils fully understand the questions that they are being asked so that they are able to answer them effectively. This can make a huge difference to the grades that they achieve. In addition, with the increased emphasis on literacy in schools it is more important than ever that pupils can understand exactly what they are being asked to write and demonstrate a good command of the English language when presenting their answers.
This PowerPoint based resource, written by a former senior examiner, is designed to be used by teachers in class to guide pupils through the common command words that could be used in AQA GCSE Design and Technology examination questions. These include which, state, give, describe, explain and discuss. It can also be printed/placed on a VLE for students to use as part of their GCSE revision. In addition to an explanation of each command word, the resource also provides a sample question and answer for each, giving pupils clear examples of how to structure their answers to each type of question.
A fantastic collection of more than 50 numeracy based brain teasers and puzzles. Great for use as engaging lesson starters in Maths.
The brain teasers are ranked by challenge level. They range from some suitable for key stage 3 through to problems that will present a challenge to GCSE and AS/A2 students.
This is a PowerPoint explaining the common command words that could be used in exam questions for the subject, alongside a sample question and answer for each type of question.
In order to maximise exam performance, it is vital that pupils fully understand the questions that they are being asked so that they are able to answer them effectively. This can make a huge difference to the grades that they achieve. In addition, with the increased emphasis on literacy in schools it is more important than ever that pupils can understand exactly what they are being asked to write and demonstrate a good command of the English language when presenting their answers.
This PowerPoint based resource, written by a former senior examiner, is designed to be used by teachers in class to guide pupils through the common command words that could be used in AQA GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition examination questions. These include which, state, give, describe, explain and discuss. It can also be printed/placed on a VLE for students to use as part of their GCSE revision. In addition to an explanation of each command word, the resource also provides a sample question and answer for each, giving pupils clear examples of how to structure their answers to each type of question.
This is a 12 slide PowerPoint presentation prepared by an experienced, award winning teacher and former senior examiner to assist in the delivery of the systems approach knowledge as part of the Engineering and/or D&T GCSE 9-1 specifications. It could also be used as a training resource to support colleagues unfamiliar with or new to this area of the specifications.
Included is an overview of what makes a system, examples of input, process, driver and output devices, the use of block diagrams and feedback. Four exam style questions are presented so that students can test their knowledge and understanding.
This is a PowerPoint explaining the common command words that could be used in exam questions for the subject, alongside a sample question and answer for each type of question.
In order to maximise exam performance, it is vital that pupils fully understand the questions that they are being asked so that they are able to answer them effectively. This can make a huge difference to the grades that they achieve. In addition, with the increased emphasis on literacy in schools it is more important than ever that pupils can understand exactly what they are being asked to write and demonstrate a good command of the English language when presenting their answers.
This PowerPoint based resource, written by a former senior examiner, is designed to be used by teachers in class to guide pupils through the common command words that could be used in AQA GCSE Engineering examination questions. These include which, state, give, describe, explain and discuss. It can also be printed/placed on a VLE for students to use as part of their GCSE revision. In addition to an explanation of each command word, the resource also provides a sample question and answer for each, giving pupils clear examples of how to structure their answers to each type of question.
This document is designed for use by Headteachers and members of the SLT. It presents, in a revised format, the grade descriptors published by Ofsted. It is intended to prepare for an inspection and to save preparation time when an inspection occurs. If the tables within this document, or individual items from the tables are regularly discussed at SLT meetings, it can also assist in maintaining the focus on improvement.
The aims of this document are, once completed:
To allow schools to identify where there are gaps or weaknesses in the evidence base that need to be addressed.
To help inspectors identify and locate evidence to justify a grade awarded.
The grade descriptors are listed in tabular form, with separate tables for ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ for each of the main inspection areas.
These cards provide easy to follow instructions for 39 outstanding starters and plenaries. That's more than one great idea to try each week of the academic year! All have been proven to work in the classroom across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
This digital version of the cards is presented as printable A4 PDFs of both the front and back of the A6 cards (4 cards per A4 page) - ready for laminating and guillotining.
This resource includes:
39 outstanding starter and plenary activities (four per A4 page) as digital files for printing and/or laminating to create a set of cards (front and back of cards provided).
Word templates to assist in the delivery of some activities which may require worksheets for pupils/students to use.
This resource provides a form in an Excel format that can be used to carry out the risk assessment of Design & Technology workshops.
Electronic copies can be used when updating the risk assessment, saving time by reducing the need to re-enter data or values that have not changed. The format used is based on that recommended in the D&T Association publication 'Risk assessment in Secondary Schools & Colleges Design & Technology Teaching Environments'.
Included in this resource:
An Excel spreadsheet tool to assist in carrying out risk assessments of D&T rooms.
Notes explaining the effective use of the resource.
This resource is a set of time saving marking grids for providing formative feedback to students and recording improvements in their performance. It is linked directly to the 2014 Key Stage 3 Design and Technology National Curriculum. It has been used successfully in the classroom as presented, but can be adapted and modified to suit individual school and departmental requirements. It has been created by an experienced middle leader and advisor for the subject.
A marking grid is provided for each bullet point of the programme of study, split into the strands of Design, Make, Evaluate, Technical Knowledge and Cooking and Nutrition. The grids also include criteria for literacy and presentation skills within Design and Technology.
In addition to the main marking grids two types of student self assessment sheets have been provided as a bonus resource, one of each type for each strand of the curriculum.
Included in this Resource:
Instructions on how to use the resource and an example of how it can be used.
A marking grid for each bullet point of the KS3 programme of study (19 in total).
Student self assessment sheets - two types for each strand of the programme of study (10 in total).
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation designed to improve teacher understanding of systems theory and systems diagrams.
This resource includes an introduction to systems and key terms such as input, process, output, sub-system and feedback. It also provides an additional 23 slides showing examples of systems diagrams ranging from simple three block systems typical of the level found at key stage 3 Engineering and/or D&T, to complex systems including sub-systems and feedback, typical of the higher end of GCSE Engineering.
This resource can be used to support the training of teachers in this topic area, for example, through presentation at department meetings or in teacher CPD time, or by individual teachers to develop their own knowledge and understanding of this topic.
Create outstanding customised starters and plenaries for your Design and Technology lessons in minutes!
This is a full subject pack of the following resources, presented at a discounted price (seven resources for the price of six), each written for the AQA specification.
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - Electronic Systems and Mechanical Devices
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - Energy and Forces
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - Environmental, Ecological and Social Issues
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - Designing and Design Issues
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - Manufacturing Tools, Equipment and Processes
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - Materials and Material Properties
Starter or Plenary Slides for NEW GCSE D&T - New and Emerging Technologies
Each resource contains between 60 and 100+ slides. Their objective is to support literacy and numeracy in the new GCSE D&T, by focusing on key terms across the main topics of the GCSE specification. The slides include picture recognition, cloze questions, numeracy problems and anagrams. Simply copy and paste the appropriate slides for your own lessons.
This is suitable for use to support teaching of the new GCSE in D&T or at Key Stage 3. It has been written with direct reference to the AQA specification, which has been approved for first teaching in September 2017.
A digital recipe book containing 38 recipes suitable for use in teaching skills required by the 2014 Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Design and Technology - Cooking and Nutrition.
This book has been written for new or non-specialist teachers to allow them to access and teach the curriculum with ease. However it also provides a good, solid set of recipes that any food teacher can make use of at any time.
Each recipe can also be printed, laminated and used as a recipe card to hand out to learners during practical lessons.
This resource includes:
38 'mainly savoury' recipes suitable for use in key stage 3 cooking and nutrition lessons (25 savoury, 13 sweet).
Grids referencing the key practical skills that can be learnt through making each recipe.
At least one hint or tip for preparation and further adaptation of each recipe.
Teacher guidance notes.
A 60 slide presentation written by a former senior examiner, this pack has two purposes: reducing teacher workload and improving teacher understanding. It is designed to help reduce teacher workload and save time in sourcing and finding resources relevant to the NEA and context stated above.
It can be used to support the training of teachers regarding approaches to the NEA, for example, through presentation at department meetings or in teacher CPD time, or by individual teachers to develop their own knowledge and understanding of the NEA component of the AQA GCSE Design and Technology course.
Included in this resource:
Notes on how to use the resource.
General information about the NEA and context.
Example design briefs for the context.
Useful weblinks related to the context.
Example products for product analysis, related to the context.
Slides detailing what is required by each section of the NEA portfolio.
Suggested delivery routes for the NEA.
BONUS: Additional sheets detailing product analysis, specification writing and the use of SCARED for designing.
