Learning objectives: Students to investigate the role of the manufacturer. Activity based on the manufacture of Brompton fold-up bikes.

Design Specification Lesson for Key stages 3, 4 and 5

Students are investigating the different aspects of Sustainability within Product Design. These will be done by paired, group, and individual work. This is a mixed ability class and will be working mixed ability groups.

Learning Objectives: Students to differentiate and be able to select the correct tools when removing waste material during the manufacture of products. Students to be able to distinguish the tools’ uses, advantages and disadvantages.

Learning objective: 1) Students to investigate the terms market pull and technology push. 2) Students to evaluate how market pull and technology pull influences the development of products.

Learning objective: 1) Students to investigate the source of a range of materials, how they are processed for use and how they can be reused, recycled or disposed of. 2) Students to evaluate the environmental consequences of the use of these materials.

Learning Objective: Students to investigate different types of screws and nails and understand how they are used.

Learning objective: 1) Students to investigate the source of a range of materials, how they are processed for use and how they can be reused, recycled or disposed of. 2) Students to evaluate the environmental consequences of the use of these materials.

To become familiar with the 8 categories of Engineering Materials.

The Big Picture: After students have completed their T-shirt design and evaluated their designs. They are now going to develop their chosen design idea into a final finished T-shirt idea. Aims & Objectives: To evaluate your four initial design ideas and use the outcomes to develop your final design ideas for your T-shirt.

An Introduction lesson to inspire learners to take up an engineering subject. Includes detailed lesson plan. Aims and Objectives: Students to investigate the meaning of the word engineering. Students to analyse the different job types within engineering. Students to evaluate an area of engineering – turbine/energy engineering in the form of a mini project.

PSE: Diversity and Discrimination - Full lesson plan and resources for an engaging PSE session.

Full lesson resource includes full PowerPoint presentation, lesson plan and activity sheet. Aims and objectives: 1) Students to evaluate existing packaging graphics used in chocolate boxes. 2) Students to create packaging graphics for a chocolate box.

Learning objective: 1) Students to investigate what product analysis is. 2) Student to evaluate how product analysis is used to improve new products.

Common types of metal fixings CARD SORT

Learning Objectives: Students will create mock ups models of their pop up card final idea

Product Analysis (ACCESS FM) exercise/starter based on a Mobile Phone Stand. Contains images of mobile phone stands in which students choose from. The chosen products is analysed using the Product Analysis form. Also includes earphone tidies images and pewter caster jewellery images.

A poster I designed which displays the classroom rules clearly to my students in lessons. Files include original design file, pdf version and jpeg version.