Teacher powerpoint slides, individual activities and exemplars for a 14 hour project for KS3 year 7 or year 8. This project is skills based. Students will need a USB cable (which can be recycled from a keyboard or device) and a LED card (can be purchased in bulk on AliExpress.) The plywood base uses 18mm and 3mm ply, however the base can be made from a solid piece of timber with a slot rebated on a table router. This pack contains. 1 - Choosing a design brief and writing a specification. 2 - Drawing design ideas in isometric, 2D and using tinkerCAD, including a PDF of exemplars. 3 - Storyboard planning task, including images and machine infographics. 4 - Pillar drill matching and writing activity (in class, cover or homework). 5 - Soldering reading/word frame activity (in class, cover or homework.) 6 - Evaluation This activity can be extended with the use of multiple layers and embellishment on the base. For ITTs it can be simplified using Vinyl Cut stickers on backboards that are precut, this saves time and file conversion. YouTube CAD tutorials available.

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 booklet allows students to gather information on woods, metals, polymers using material properties. This pack should upload into google drive or classroom with little formatting (or as an editable pdf.) I plan to use this so that I can monitor my students progress, how easy it is for us to assume they have made their own notes... And even more frustrating that deep down we know they don't. There a 9 pages in total including the relevant section of the specification. I plan to create a booklet for each section! Thanks for looking.

A 27 A4 page pdf booklet covering the new KS5 Engineering BTEC: A1 Design triggers A2 Design challenges A3 Equipment level and system level constraints and opportunities. A range of activities with lots of real life product examples used to enable student to take preparation notes for the controlled assessment. Part two coming soon… Thanks for looking.

This 66 page booklet (pdf) follows on from part A and covers the rest of the learning aim A syllabus including material properties, power transmission, and manufacturing processes. There are lots of pages that repeat in format so that students can draw, research and learn about; Sand, die and investment casting. Machining including turning, milling and drilling. Injection, extrusion, blow and rotational moulding. Slip, tape and press forming ceramics. Press forming, stamping, drop forging metals and backward/forward impact extrusion. 3D printing. Compression moulding (metals and thermosets). Laying up. Soldering, brazing. MIG, TIG, Oxy welding. This is a “build your own” textbook, its just activities. My students complete notes in lesson time and then type them up in study periods… Some haven’t started yet but they’ll have too soon. I’m hoping they will re-visit their notes are part of the controlled assessment “research”. I’ve also started to get them to complete the research tasks before lessons so that they have examples of products before we go through the processes. This booklet is to help me as much as them because I would hate to forget to include teaching a process to find the design brief included something I hadn’t covered with them! I’m going to look into the other learning aims this term… Hopefully! Sorry it’s a pdf but I’ve paid for license for the images in some of the activities!

A 16 question, editable 50 mark mock exam including the follow topics. (PDF also included for those who don't have publisher.) Modern high performance materials. Renewable Energy. Machining; Milling, Drop forging, Sand casting, Welding, Shearing, Turning. Health and Safety. CNC manufacture. Continuous Production. Surface mount technology.

This is a 16 page A4 pack (pdf) that enables students to provide photographic evidence for Unit 7: Machining Techniques, learning Aim A and compliments the online assignment brief provided by Edexcel. Students should look to take photos where their face is visible, if they do not, you or one of their peer's, should write a comment such as "I witnessed students' name* completing this task" adding a signature to verify the evidence. *Beta tested! Corrections made! If you downloaded an incorrect version get in touch and I'll email you the latest correct version. ** Dec 2015 - Further improvements to student requirements. When did you select it? Why did you select it? What makes it useful? To break up the tasks more clearly.

This lesson on telematics has a range of activites starting with a discussion about SATNAV and Global Navigation Satellite Systems moving towards their use in the automotive sector. Powerpoint and three worksheets that are fully editable. The lessons are differentiated and tasks are marked cleared with P, M, or D so that students can understand the level of detail required for their target grade. If you like this please look at my other BTEC resources. All reviews /advice greatly appreciated! Free for NQT's just get in touch.

A selection of eight worksheets with exam style questions and learning activities for - Drop Forging (3 sheets) Shearing (2 sheets) 3 worksheets covering - Sand casting Investment casting Powder metallurgy Die casting Would make good follow up learning for my manufacturing processes lesson, more detailed than the homework/revision pack worksheets available in my resources area. Thanks for looking.

Slide 1: Bell - Highlight the five most important words from each smart materials definition. Slide 2: Review the words for piezoelectricity with the group. Slide 3 & 4: Two youtube clips - one explaining cigarette lighters (because they are universally liked by all teenagers) and one that covers ultrasound. Slide 5: Slide that covers benefits and limitations (Your high ability can copy these out while the rest answer the key question at the top of the page. ) Slide 6: Review of the 5 words for electrochromic glass with the group. Slide 7: Grand designs electrochromic glass clip. Slide 8: Same as 5. Slide 9-15: Same structure repeated for SMAs and SMPs covering a range of applications. Slide 16: A wordle with the key terms from the lesson to enable your students to write their own definition of a smart material. Worksheet with some key questions for everyone to be completed during powerpoint and to avoid them getting that glazed look and break up the note taking/clip watching. This can also be used as evidence to later mark (and then remark in order to close the loop just in case ofsted rock up.) Save yourself a day's worth of hunting for appropriate videos and download this fully editable resource. Happy Sunday.

A comprehensive lesson with bell task, starter game, definitions worksheet, identification mind map and test your knowledge plenary. Any queries or suggestions please let me know. Free for NQT's, just get in touch.

Fully editable document containing 28 differentiated homework/revision tasks including: Material properties. Bionics Manufacturing processes. Scales of production. Machining techniques. Selecting and using tools for drilling, milling and turning. Engineering sectors. The 6 R's. Material properties. Tasks are rated as easy, medium, difficult. I tell my students that they should attempt the task that is closest to their target grade easy (pass) medium (merit) difficult (distinction) but preferably one grade above. Sometimes there is choice element to the activities so that student will engage more fully with the tasks. There are a range of tasks that are designed to take students 20 minutes at home.

This is a 58 page booklet that students can use to record their understand of the metals exam theory, including all processes. There are spaces for diagrams, some reading activities and “information cards”. One the front page there are references to each page in the AQA Design and Technology: Product Design Textbook by Hodder Education. This is a build your own textbook and is provided as a powerpoint, but could be used as a google slides document or printed and hand written.

Eight A4 portrait worksheets covering the use of the following tools: twist drill bit, centre drill, counter-bore, flat bottomed drill bit, tap and die, dead centre, live centre, countersink, and reamer. The tasks are varied, some word frame/reading tasks, some sketching tasks, some question based tasks. Lots of keywords for those learners who struggle with the new vocabulary, excellent and essential Assignment 1 preparation. Activities are appropriate for those students looking to gain a Pass/Merit grade as advantages and disadvantages are not covered in detail. Any suggestions welcome (the file was created as a .ddp hence the pdf format but I'm happy to edit upon request), More Level 2 resources coming soon. A full lesson teaching students about the same tools is available here https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/level-2-btec-engineering-unit-7-machining-what-makes-a-tool-useful-11163145

A student friendly tracker for self assessment or teacher assessment to help identify areas of strength and areas of weakness for The Engineered World exam. Created in excel, completely editable. Can be used along side my mock exams and other resources. Free to NQT's just get in touch.

A presentation and worksheet on Hydrogen Fuel Cells.

A presentation, with supporting worksheets at the end, that teaches students the benefits and limitations of different drawing techniques prior to undertaking the assignment. (Includes Isometric, Oblique and Orthographic Projections.)

A set of single page pdf’s to support the teaching of pewter casting, including CAD videos and walkthroughs and a pillow pack.