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Resources for all areas of Design Technology and Engineering. Lots of help and work sheets to aid lessons and build lessons around. Extension tasks and full lessons.

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Resources for all areas of Design Technology and Engineering. Lots of help and work sheets to aid lessons and build lessons around. Extension tasks and full lessons.
Questionnaire Sheet for Market Research
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Questionnaire Sheet for Market Research

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Double sided questionnaire sheet for use in market research, good for KS3, 4 and 5. Students come up with questions and answers and then complete the survey to give them data. The sheet also has boxes for students to explain what the results mean to the research they are doing. Students can use this and then move onto Excel to create graphs of the data.
6R's Explanation Sheet
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6R's Explanation Sheet

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Simple explanation sheet for the 6R's. Good for use in lessons to aid students in the subject, uses questions that students can ask about products to help analyse them or make their designs better.
Packaging Starter Task
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Packaging Starter Task

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Starter task that asks students to name the product that each of the different packaging solutions are used for. Nice simple intro to a packaging lesson. Answers: 1. Coca Cola 2. Pringles 3. IPod Nano, 4. Football, 5. Drink, 6. Chewing Gum
Everyday Electronics Starter Task
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Everyday Electronics Starter Task

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Lesson starter or Bell task that asks students to consider products they have used that use electricity and how they might have done the same thing before electricity was discovered. Exploration of electronics and products, can be group or individual work.
Resistor Value Worksheet
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Resistor Value Worksheet

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Resistor Value worksheet. Variations of working out resistor values, including tolerances and kilo and mega ohms as well as working backwards from the values to the colours. Includes a table explaining the colours and their values, can be used as a homework or extension task or just to teach about values of resistors.
Boat STEM Lesson
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Boat STEM Lesson

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This is a powerpoint for a STEM lesson about making a boat out of a piece of A4. This is a stand alone 1 hour lesson that can be used as a fun activity but also explains the design process, from initial ideas, research, developed ideas, modelling, testing and evaluating. All you need is a piece of card for each team, tape and some weights. 100g weights up to 1kg works well. (And some water).
Worksheet and Recipes for comparing differences in healthy recipes
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Worksheet and Recipes for comparing differences in healthy recipes

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A worksheet which asks students to compare the nutritional content of different similar recipes. They also need to explain why they think they are healthier and how they could be made healthier. There are also 3 recipe sheets with different recipes that students can compare on the sheet. Great extension task for high ability students.
ACCESSFM Product Analysis Help sheet Differentiated
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ACCESSFM Product Analysis Help sheet Differentiated

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Help sheet that explains the different parts of the ACCESSFM acronym with a number of questions. The sheet can be printed one sided for high ability students but it also has an another side which can be printed 2 sided to differentiate for lower ability students in the group. this side gives more information and what they should be looking for and commenting on.
Colour Wheel and Relationships Lesson
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Colour Wheel and Relationships Lesson

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PowerPoint and worksheets for a lesson on the colour wheel and other elements of colour. The PowerPoint asks questions of students and their perceptions of colours with colour tricks and colour blindness tests. There is also a worksheet for the students to work through for their reference. Plenary task included which asks students to explain their knowledge of the colour wheel.
Measurements and Units Booklet conversion, measure, calculate
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Measurements and Units Booklet conversion, measure, calculate

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A booklet based around different measurements and units commonly found in DT but can be used in maths or other areas around the school. (originally a booklet used for students in isolation) Has measurement conversions, measuring and marking up parts, perimeter and area and fractions of measurements.
Dimensioned Drawing for a Stationery Holder
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Dimensioned Drawing for a Stationery Holder

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Dimensioned drawing for a stationery holder with instructions of how to make all the parts. This is a metal project using flat steel bars and box section as an introduction to some basic metal working.
Rendering Introduction Lesson, Form and Materials
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Rendering Introduction Lesson, Form and Materials

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This is a resource which introduces students to different rendering techniques to show form and different materials using a range of different techniques. Included is a powerpoint presentation which explains all the tasks and a worksheet to complete all of the tasks on.
Turned and Milled Torch Instructions
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Turned and Milled Torch Instructions

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This is a dimensioned drawing for a small ‘torch’ that can be made using a lathe, milling machine and drilling machine to give students basic machine skills and introduce them to basic functions of each machine and also how to machine metal.
Material Investigation Lesson (Ropes/Cords)
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Material Investigation Lesson (Ropes/Cords)

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This is a presentation and worksheets for a lesson around measuring the material properties of different cords and ropes. There are 6 different ropes used in the lesson and students move around and test each one and learn about them using information sheets. This lessons requires 6 ropes/cords (Para cord, twine, bungee cord, fishing wire, blue polypropylene rope and chain) and weights and stands.
Investigation of Engineers and Technologists Lesson
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Investigation of Engineers and Technologists Lesson

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This is a lesson about investigating different technologist and engineers that have made a big impact on the world. There is a presentation which explains all the tasks and has a starter and plenary. There are 6 different technologist information sheets which explain each person and a blank poster work sheet for the presentations about each one.