Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Food and nutrition lesson on lifestyle choices and diet.
Covers individuals with specific lifestyle needs to include
vegetarians: lacto-ovo, lacto, vegan, and those with
religious beliefs that affect choice of diet to include
Hindu, Muslim, Jewish
Lesson contains
Starter
Learning objectives
Card sort
Summary of 60
Mini review
GCSE questions
Exit card
resources
Introduction to plastics
What are they why we use them
What are their properties
Design a reuseable plastic product
kept it simple for year 7’s being taught by a non specialist. Avoided all the plastic term names like polyethylene etc and tried to make it engaging.
You could add plastic names to stretch higher ability pupils
Useful for that quick lesson you just don’t have the time to create
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B Powdered metallurgy
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
An assembly I gave on resourcefulness following on from my previous assembly on resilience.
The assembly lasted 20 minutes.
Videos, thought provokers, thinking time and key learning points.
Follow on lesson from simple carbohydrates
to explain complex carbohydrates (Polysaccharides) and their role in your diet
Cellulose Fibre
Starch
Glycogen
Also outlines diabetes and hypoglycaemic and foods rich in fibre
Mini reviews
Scaffolding Tasks
Exit Card
A lesson to guide students on how to answer the exam question on processes and the suitabililty of material used in the process to manufacture the product.
Processes
Materials
Properties
Example questions
Example assignment for unit 3 assignment Btec engineering health and safety in engineering.
The assignment includes all feedback and Btec sheets that should accompany it.
Assignment were praised by external moderator as good examples.
Design and Technology or Business Studies
Covering the new WJEC spec for Technology Push, Market Pull, Consumer Choice and life cycle of a product.
Starter
Group activity (hot seating) present findings to class
60 second summary task
Group discussion
Life cyle of product graph
Reverse test
Exit card
All you need for a great lessons
Wellbeing and Ethos
discuss your plans for the school holiday
Reminding pupils to not miss opportunities
Fall into the Summer holiday rut
Top 10 summer holiday ruts
Best things to do with your summer
Some of the things to do are for Wales and might need to change for your local area
I would include pictures of you enjoying summer holidays as a child and now
I have added an updated version into the package
Includes Updated power point 2020
This lesson follows on from my Vitamins lesson. Pupils should use the investigation technique to scan and skim information to find facts form the fact sheets on minerals provided. There is a short video on minerals a show me game and plenary. Also a piece of homework for them to produce their own fact sheet on water.
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I have compiled a practice exam with answers to aid students in preparing for the WJEC product design and engineering exam. The questions are centered on the fundamental principles and concepts specified in the curriculum. The exam includes questions from the SAMs and previous papers, and I have created an editable document that can be printed and distributed to students.
Providing past papers and mock exams can help students to familiarize themselves with the format and style of the exam, as well as identify areas where they may need further study or practice. Encouraging students to practice with past papers and mock exams can also help to build their confidence and reduce anxiety around the exam.
Colour in, Cut out and stick togethr these Pirates and Princesses Hats (Key stage 1 Art and DT)
I designed these for my kids craft party to colour cut out and wear, might be useful to someone.
Lesson to meet requirements for teaching limitations and defects in wood to help pupils make informed choices when selecting timber.
Common defects of wood. (5min) Class
Teaching method: Introduce, pupils investigate, mini whiteboard to recall facts.
Rational: Introducing new vocabulary.
Line of questioning: When selecting wood, why is important to look for defects?
mini whiteboard: Progress check
Grading wood (5 min) Pair
Teaching method: Demonstration, Questioning,
mini whiteboard: Progress check
Rational: Make informed decisions, check progress
Selecting Wood (15 min) Pair
Teaching method: Facilitate pupils investigation, provide factsheets, pupils to record information found through scanning, circulate to guide pupils. Model scanning method.
Rational: literacy focus to develop pupils lit skills, pupils need the information to make informed choices, working in pairs to support each other.
Consolidating Information (10 min) Silence
Teaching method: Open question – ‘When selecting a wood species for a product what do pupils have to consider before committing to the material?’
Rational: Pupils to answer an assessment of learning question using as much detail as possible. Consolidating learning from this and previous lesson.
Learning Leading to
Pupils will have to select and justify materials for their products, they have to state what needs to be considered and how the materials they select can be quality checked and finished to achieve a good result.
Extension activity and Stretch it (10 minutes) Individual
How wood is graded. Pupils to investigate how wood is graded and what information they would find from a piece of wood graded wood.