Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Bionics
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Blended wing bodies
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Welding
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
One of lesson explaining the effects of emerging technology.
The lesson helps students identify the positive and negative effects and the prepares them for GCSE exam questions.
The lesson contains exam style questions and explains how to access the low and high marks.
Contains
Starter
Main lesson
2 Tasks
Exam question mark breakdown
6 exam questions from 1 - 6 marks
Exit card
Follows on from emerging technology lesson on technology push, market pull and consumer choice.
1 to 2 lessons covering product design laws and legislation
Starter
Easy to follow info slides
5 tasks
Mini reviews
Exit card
2 Stretch 6 mark GCSE Style question activities
Here is a scheme of learning for a Design and Technology unit that aligns with the principles of the Curriculum for Wales. This Scheme of Learning (SOL) has been carefully crafted to be accessible for delivery by a non-specialist teacher in a general-purpose classroom over the course of a term. It provides a clear outline of the learning objectives, detailing the rationale behind the selected activities. Additionally, the scheme integrates essential skills, encourages critical thinking, and addresses common misconceptions. It includes prerequisite knowledge, comprehensive assessment rubrics, lesson overviews, and a curated list of key vocabulary to support both teaching and learning throughout the unit.
2 sided A3 revision sheet for look cover test and producing flash cards to cover the requirements of the WJEC specification for core knowledge and understanding.
Lesson for Food Technology
1-3 lessons on designing a smoothie
Starer
Video Links
Mini plenary anatomy of a smoothie
Differentiated support sheets
Design task with WILF
Exit Card
A revision sheet that covers unit 2 of the WJEC food and nutrition Specification for the principles of nutrition
Macro and Micronutrients
RDA
Amino Acids
Good Fat V Bad Fat
Carbohydrates
Nutrition Labeling
A lesson I gave to highlight the work of Airbus
Covers the requirements of the WJEC Design and Technology specification 2017.
Also could be used to talk about material properties and uses.
Standard lesson
Starter
Lesson objectives
Video link
Mini Review
Narrative slides about the Airbus A380 scaffolding for final activity
Think Pair share (material properties and uses)
Final task: Create an infographic on the Airbus
Exit card
A lesson I gave on looking at the work of other designers focusing on Shigeru Miyamoto
Standard lesson
Starter
Video link
Scaffolding narrative about Shigeru Miyamoto
Mini Review
Task: Design an 8/16 bit pixel character
Extension task: design a pixel level
Pupils really engaged with this lesson and enjoyed the design activity
Cover lesson task or Homework
News article on Bionics with arguments for and against
Key Definitions task
Comprehension questions
60 word summary create an argument for and against.
An assembly I delivered for halloween about fear and the fear of failure and but can be used at anypoint of the year (just remove the halloween specific slide) The only thing I have removed is the picture of me combatting my fear of heights, you can personalise for your own.
Lasted around 15 - 20 minutes with a link to video
A revision sheet that can be easily followed by a student to do look/cover/test or make flash cards. Describes what they might be asked in an exam to familiarise themselves with questioning.
Extension task. get the pupils to create GCSE style questions from the examples given.
Pupils sometimes struggle to describe a materials properties and characteristic and justify why different materials are used for different products based on their attributes.
This lesson introduces pupils to new vocabulary and deepens their thinking by offereing real situations.
A mixture of activities from
Think pair share
Direct questioning
independent learning
Taboo
Summary
Mini reviews
This covers the specification requirements for the WJEC understanding the properties of hardwoods, tropical woods and softwoods.
This help sheet promotes independent learning for the the topic of woods and covers a majority of the criteria from the WJEC resistant materials specification on woods.
Pupils will require the following on their mobile / smart devices
QR code reader
the 'Aurasma' app
Then revision sheet also covers common misconceptions and advice on answering exam questions that require knowledge of wood.