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NGfL Cymru was a website funded by the Welsh Government. The resources on TES are a legacy of this project. The content or format of these resources may be out of date. You can find free, bilingual teaching resources linked to the Curriculum for Wales on hwb.gov.wales.
A comprehensive series of multimedia materials to support the teaching of the GCSE Design and Technology Textiles Technology course. The materials can be downloaded as a complete Moodle course or as individual elements. The bilingual resources include video clips, animations, text and quizzes within Moodle and can be used on an interactive whiteboard for whole class teaching or by students on individual computers. The images included in this work, to the best of our knowledge, are from sources that their use do not breach any copyright rules. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
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.
Guidelines and activities to present a unit on bridges in years 3-6.
In years 3 and 4 the work includes designing and building a bridge to cross a river.
Progression is assured in years 5 and 6 by asking the pupils to design a bridge that can open and close and/or can be lit up.
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.
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.
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.
A comprehensive series of multimedia materials to support the teaching of the GCSE Design and Technology Textiles Technology course. The materials can be downloaded as a complete Moodle course or as individual elements. The bilingual resources include video clips, animations, text and quizzes within Moodle and can be used on an interactive whiteboard for whole class teaching or by students on individual computers. The images included in this work, to the best of our knowledge, are from sources that their use do not breach any copyright rules. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
Pupils without any previous learning in the subject are introduced to basic electronics.
Pupils are taught the skills required to make simple electronic circuitry and will engage in the design of a complete electronic product for a target customer group.
Skills such as soldering, circuit assembly, circuit design and component choice are introduced.
A comprehensive series of multimedia materials to support the teaching of the GCSE Design and Technology Textiles Technology course. The materials can be downloaded as a complete Moodle course or as individual elements. The bilingual resources include video clips, animations, text and quizzes within Moodle and can be used on an interactive whiteboard for whole class teaching or by students on individual computers. The images included in this work, to the best of our knowledge, are from sources that their use do not breach any copyright rules. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
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.
A comprehensive series of multimedia materials to support the teaching of the GCSE Design and Technology Textiles Technology course. The materials can be downloaded as a complete Moodle course or as individual elements. The bilingual resources include video clips, animations, text and quizzes within Moodle and can be used on an interactive whiteboard for whole class teaching or by students on individual computers. The images included in this work, to the best of our knowledge, are from sources that their use do not breach any copyright rules. Please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
This resource investigates aspects of different vehicles and how it is important to design the vehicle to match the needs of the person who will be using it. Video demonstrations offer different techniques for attaching wheels and axles. For more materials relating to this resource, please visit the NGfL site, linked below.
