2021 AQA DT GCSE NEA Guide to Section A

Worried about what to teach the Year 11 DT GCSE students in September 2020? This is the perfect resource to get them started and enthused with a high quality power point, with 22 slides of relevant visuals and animations, as well as questions, techniques and directed tasks to get them off to a great start.

In this start you back to school section A, GCSE coursework task, Students will learn about:

Get guidance on the Non Examination Assessment structure and how best to start it
The difference between preconceived ideas (design fixation) and a design idea that can be developed creatively
Gain an insight and generate initial ideas about design problems, opportunities and possibilities
To revisit the meaning and the value of anthropometrics and ergonomics and their importance in the client data collection for the NEA

Potential learning outcomes:
first two slides/pages of NEA
Length - 2 lessons (including student activity)

Plenary/homework questions included at end.

This is the first part of two lessons dealing with section A that can be recorded on power point or paper

UPDATE A second part dealing with investigation into the work of others, economic and social effects and guidance on how research informs the iterative process of the NEA has been drafted! Link here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-dt-gcse-nea-section-a-part-2-12401619

This is one of my 5 part TES units dealing with the 2021 GCSE NEA. Please look to the resources here for section A (first two), section B and a combination section C/D unit/power point as well as section E (which reflects the most recent changes to the marks scheme):

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-dt-gcse-nea-guide-to-section-e-12494870
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-dt-gcse-nea-guide-to-section-c-and-d-12477833
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-dt-gcse-nea-guide-to-section-a-12395717
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-dt-gcse-nea-section-a-part-2-12401619
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-dt-gcse-nea-guide-to-section-b-12417046

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