A comprehensive set of resources for Key Skills in the Motor Vehicle Sector, also suitable for the learner in the Workplace. These resources can support the learner in developing and applying the skills and knowledge required for applying Key Skills in a Motor Vehicle context

This lesson describes production scales such as one-off production, batch production, mass production and continuous production.

An interactive resource that allows children to identify the main features of structures by disassembling and building a house and a hinge.

This lesson introduces pupils to shapes and patterns. There are a series of interactive activities, all of which test pupils' ability to place shapes in a particular order. They will also create multi-coloured objects, one side at a time. The lesson can be simulated in the classroom using plastic building blocks.

This unit begins by revising the symbols used for components in an electrical circuit diagram. Section 1 asks pupils to look at a circuit diagram and decide whether the cicuit would work before building and testing it. Section 2 asks pupils to drag components on to the screen to build particular circuits

By the end of this lesson students should know how to: * carry out initial project planning * produce an image board that reflects the intended theme of their project

An interactive resource that promotes healthy eating whilst encouraging pupils to consider where the food comes from and its effect on communities and the planet. Pupils use a simple database to compare and select fruits for their fruit salad before finding out how much of a carbon impact their salad has on the planet. Pupils are also given the opportunity to debate the positive and negative impacts of a global market and look at case studies of farmers around the World. This resource includes the ESDGC themes of Health, Choices and Decisions and Wealth and Poverty.

This lesson helps students to communicate design ideas effectively by using graphical techniques.

The aim of the lesson is to introduce students to a variety of different materials. Students will examine a number of common hardwoods, softwoods, manufactured boards, plastics, metals and compliant materials such as card. Students studying a resistant materials course will be expected to have a knowledge of woods, manufactured boards, metals and plastics whereas students choosing a product design course will study compliant materials such as card and paper in combination with one or two other resistant materials such as metal, woods or plastics.

The first activity shows a completed hand puppet that teachers can discuss and disassemble on the whiteboard and then reassemble with input from the pupils. The second activity involves a virtual needle game where teachers or pupils have to sew online! The second screen allows pupils to create patterns using the stitching technique and choose different coloured threads. When using the resources teachers should introduce and discuss the following words and concepts: template, fabric, sewing, needle, running stitch, puppet, seam, stitch and thread.

This lesson contains activities designed to illustrate to pupils the main features of wheels and axles and how to make a simple vehicle. The first activity shows the effects of placing axles off centre. The second shows how two axles and a chassis can make a moving vehicle.

PowerPoint presentation ‘Making a Swing’, with accompanying teachers’ notes and worksheets. Supports pupils to understand how things work and why, design a model, Join materials using a different methods and evaluate work.

Develop a design proposal by recording and presenting development work up to and including a performance spec. By the end of this lesson students should: be familiar with strategies for identifying a need know how to formulate a situation statement understand how to formulate a design brief know how to write a performance specification

Support Material for Teachers and Students

Aims Students should: * understand the role yeast plays in bread making * know the effect that temperature and sugar (substrate) concentration have on the rate of bread dough expansion * understand the need to control variables in investigations Contents * Starter (including animation) outlining how yeast causes dough to rise.

This interactive activity allows pupils to investigate simple circuits by dragging circuit components into place to make a working circuit. The activities form an introduction to practical work exploring circuits. Pupils have the opportunity to experiment with switches to control components in order to find out that a circuit will not work if there is a break in it.

By the end of this lesson students should know: * the difference between primary and secondary research sources and how to use these sources to maximise their design project * how to formulate and analyse a questionnaire as part of their research * how to carry out research by evaluating existing products

This is a collection of work from around 20 teachers, who were happy to exemplify how, digital media assists and excite the learning that occurs in their classroom. The selection of tasks and products are varied and some may seem eclectic, but these are the methods and products used and made by the participating schools and ones that they have achieved success with.

A series of activities to develop the pupils skills as they prepare. Emphasis is placed on the importance of hygiene in food preparation. Pupils are given the opportunity to investigate readymade meals on the market. There’s an opportunity to develop number when weighing readymade foods and measuring their area. After creating a brief, there are a series of videos to introduce making skills as the pupils prepare and cook in the classroom. The final unit focuses on the importance of evaluating their product and the process. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.

An interactive whiteboard resource which allows the child to assemble a puppet and learn how to create simple stitches.