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.
A lesson on calculating the total macro and micro nutrients provided by food ingredients and in a recipe.
This lesson provides
A starter on previous learning (simple and complex carbohydrates)
Learning objectives for lesson (All Most Some/ Expect Develop Stretch)
A think pair share (types of macro and micro nutrients)
Mini review activity (What are micro macro neither?)
Scaffolding (Calculating the nutrients in a recipe for an ingredient)
Task (Calculating the nutrients in a recipe for an ingredient)
Stretch Task (Calculating the total nutrients in a recipe)
Exit Card (Types of macro and micro nutrients)
Resources for all the nutrition of ingredients provided by spaghetti bolognese
Design and make task
Designing cupcakes (Not healthy eating but a good one for designing and thinking about adding fruit and making things healthier) Pupils really engage with this activity.
Fun starter
Lesson objectives - focusing on the design outcome
Peer assessment of modeled outcomes
Specification
Main task
Exit card
Nutritional Resources
Pupils sometimes struggle to describe a materials properties and characteristic and justify why different materials are used for different products based on their attributes.
This lesson introduces pupils to new vocabulary and deepens their thinking by offereing real situations.
A mixture of activities from
Think pair share
Direct questioning
independent learning
Taboo
Summary
Mini reviews
This covers the specification requirements for the WJEC understanding the properties of hardwoods, tropical woods and softwoods.
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Shearing
A power point presentation with starter activity, notes, video links, tasks and plenary that cover this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A PCB SMT Manufacture
A power point presentation with starter activity, notes, video links, tasks and plenary that cover this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B High performance materials
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B High composite materials
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
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
2 sided A3 revision sheet for look cover test and producing flash cards to cover the requirements of the WJEC specification for core knowledge and understanding.
Lesson for Food Technology
1-3 lessons on designing a smoothie
Starer
Video Links
Mini plenary anatomy of a smoothie
Differentiated support sheets
Design task with WILF
Exit Card
last minute cover lesson activity to design a healthy and nutritious flapjack
Includes success criteria
Simle instructions
Information o help them fulfill the success criteria
A 4 hour learning activity/project that encourages independent learning to meet set outcomes.
This activity was developed as a short project based learning activity to compliment the work that the pupils do in school.
There are 3 milestones for the pupils to complete using the resources provided to answer a driving question.
Driving Question
How can we convince people to use eco-friendly products and reduce the impact they have on the planet?
Context
As a consumer you buy and throw away lots of products such as phones, pens, packaging. These products not only use lots of our resources but end up in landfills and cause pollution. We should all look to reduce our impact on the environment but as designers we should also consider how products impact the environment and look for ways to reduce that impact. Complete the milestones above to investigate the impact and how it can be reduced.
In the resource you will find an overview sheet and 4 suitable resource sheets to help pupils complete the desired outcomes.
Here is one of the powerpoints I made for our house competitions. Players can select from one of the classic children’s games and gain points by playing the game. The powerpoint is fully automated and interactive, There are various outcomes so if they do it once they could do it again for a different outcome. You can add slides and change the transition/links if you desire to make it easier or hard.
Interactive games
Operation
Buckaroo
Pop up Pirate
Jenga
Kerplunk
Guess Who
and a guess the board game quiz thrown in!
This took a couple of hours to create so if you use it and find it useful please review.
Thanks
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
This help sheet promotes independent learning for the the topic of woods and covers a majority of the criteria from the WJEC resistant materials specification on woods.
Pupils will require the following on their mobile / smart devices
QR code reader
the 'Aurasma' app
Then revision sheet also covers common misconceptions and advice on answering exam questions that require knowledge of wood.
Linked to my KS3 food topics -
Smoothie design
Pupils are producing smoothie in order to explain healthy eating and nutrition.
Part of there assessment is to plan and sequence how they make products.
This lessons helps them to investigate and plan a recipe card.
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B Telematics
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim