Resources provided for hard material technologies covering Engineering, Resistant Materials and Product Design.
Designed by a former blacksmith with 8 years teaching experience and 6 years examination and moderation experience!
Resources provided for hard material technologies covering Engineering, Resistant Materials and Product Design.
Designed by a former blacksmith with 8 years teaching experience and 6 years examination and moderation experience!
A set of worksheets. The first asks students to copy and label the die casting process diagram.
The others are to label the stages of die casting using keywords and write the advantages and disadvantages.
Any suggestions just get in touch.
Two short lessons, or one lesson and additional homeworks used to teach and consolidate the powder metallurgy process.
Starter: Write down success criteria,complete a powder metallurgy flowchart.
Task 1 : Watch a youtube clip, teacher to explain each stage of process.
Task 2: Cut and paste the stages and stick them in the correct order.
Task 3: Homework to encourage students to think about applications and consolidate.
Task 4: Similar cut and paste exercise with pictures of each stage, students to annotate each picture.
Advantages and Disadvantages to be covered in a separate lesson in comparison to the three casting techniques!
Three pdf worksheets aimed at teaching students the stages of investment casting.
The first resource asks students to watch a ten minute youtube clip and then write the stages of investment casting onto the worksheet.
There are times given (in minutes and seconds) where the teacher can pause the video and students are given keywords to allow them to learn the correct terminology.
This could also be given as a homework.
The second task is to revise the process by cutting and sticking the icons into the correct order.
Any questions just ask!
*Colours correted, some of the pictures were wax coloured, not aluminium coloured
A lesson where students exchange information to develop their understand of the following tools and what shape profiles they cut in materials; counter bore, centre drill, twist drill bit, flat-bottomed drill bit, tap, die, countersink, reamer, facing tool, turning tool.
The lesson starts with speed dating (instructions included) where students read out slips to eachother (sounds a bit naff but works really well if they are not a group that engages well with writing and has a clear oracy element.)
Team discussions and teacher lead discussions moves on to a highlight keywords and explain their meaning sheet. Finally the students have to try and identify which tools create which profiles from given diagrams using the descriptions.
Support students moving from Pass to Merit, helps less able to engage with L1 identification of tools, with less writing and more speaking. Probably an hours worth of teaching, identify the profiles could be given as a consolidation homework if you run out of time. All text editable in download.
Compliment my other Unit 7: Machining resources including https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/level-2-btec-engineering-unit-7-machining-effectiveness-applications-of-tools-11118336 . Any feedback greatly received!
A lesson all about the applications, advantages, and disadvantages of
Bionic eyes
Prosthetic Limbs
Mechanical Hearts/pacemakers
Breast Implants
Cochlear Implants
The first pages are to encourage debate and to classify the pictures and also helps the teacher to gauge the level of prior knowledge in the room (lots of the information will overlap with you top set Science students, if you have any.) The presentation is designed to raise some important issues about disability and health in relation to the applications of bionics. (Might be worth preparing the LADS for a serious discussion, especially when it comes to breast augmentation and cancer.... You could always create new slides on artificial windpipes instead but I fancied a challenging debate and not a lesson where issues such as disability, cancer, deaf/blindness and injury caused through war etc. became topics of banter.)
There is then a group task, each group gets a fact sheet about one of the five suggested bionic applications and another sheet with questions that they need to answer and present to the rest of the group. I'm going to give my A2 sugar paper, marker pens and 20 minutes.
There's no plenary, I think it'll be a push to get through all five presentations in one lesson. I might use the following lessons to produce a "How much can you remember?" Mindmap. Will being delivering this lesson soon so will be able to give better time/activity guidance.
No worksheets, just an editable powerpoint.
This is a team work based game that introduces students to the following topics:
Surface mount technology
CNC machinery
Pick and place robotics
Drop forging
Shearing
Teams of four/five are assigned roles (I've assigned teams of 4 because I have classes of 20+) but you could do teams of three by merging the writer/explainer role.
Five paragraphs (1 about each process) are put out on different tables and students have to work as a team to produce a quick poster of each process using words and pictures. I'm going to give the team with the best 5 posters a prize at the end. Students are each given specific tasks and their are rules to keep them in check.
A five minute timer and two minute timer are in the powerpoint to help you move them on and keep the pressure/pace of the competition going. They could even vote for the winning team at the end or you could get the teams to swap posters and add in anything they think was missing.
Three worksheets aimed at teaching students about the stages of investment casting.
The first resource asks students to watch a ten minute youtube clip and then write the stages of investment casting onto the worksheet.
There are times given (in minutes and seconds) where the teacher can pause the video and students are given keywords to allow them to learn the correct terminology.
This could also be given as a homework.
The second task is to revise the process by cutting and sticking the icons into the correct order.
Any questions just ask!
A set of worksheets. The first asks students to copy and label the die casting process diagram.
The others are to label the stages of die casting using keywords and write the advantages and disadvantages.
Any suggestions just get in touch.
An A-level resource for use on product design, resistant materials, and graphic products courses. Can also be used as part of BTEC Level 3 Engineering, Unit 16 Engineering Drawing for Technicians.
A slideshow with animations and questions for discussion and a series of slides just with questions that can be printed as supporting worksheets for students to annotate answers onto.