I wanted to create a 'one stop shop' for all the Graphics and D&T projects that you D&T teachers out there need - Please get in touch if you need something and I will see if i can make it up for you! Stay safe, y'all!
I wanted to create a 'one stop shop' for all the Graphics and D&T projects that you D&T teachers out there need - Please get in touch if you need something and I will see if i can make it up for you! Stay safe, y'all!
A LEVEL PRODUCT DESIGN NEA SECTION D 2021
This is the perfect resource for remote learning to get students enthused, confident and carrying on, with a high quality power point, with highly detailed guidance, examples and specialist technical knowledge, with relevant visuals and animations, techniques and directed tasks to get them finishing off Section D!
This is an extremely comprehensive resource that covers this entire unit.
Learning outcomes:
In this A level coursework task, Students will gain an understanding of:
How the mark scheme translates into 3 chunked research tasks:
How to explain how their intended prototype would be fully address the design brief, satisfying all major points of the specification also meeting the needs/requirements of their client
The specialist technical subject knowledge of section with strong emphasis on researching the correct tools, materials and equipment, as well as health and safety, quality control and relevance to their intended prototype manufacture
Students will learn how to represent this intended manufacture process as a detailed manufacturing diary, considering health and safety as well as quality control.
I have gone into an incredible level of detail on the manufacture processes, including:
Wasting processes, Sawing & jointing, Drilling, Turning , Polymer forming processes: Vacuum forming, Line bending , CAD CAM processes: Laser cutting, 3d printing, Metal processes: Casting, MIG welding, Soldering, Standard components and fixings, Knock down fittings, Fixings, Tensol glue, Epoxy resin, PVA glue, Finishes, Adding veneer, Painting with acrylic/stain/watercolour, and finally Varnishing. I also mention injection moulding and industrial processes.
This aspect of the power point alone makes this an invaluable resource for exam revision as it covers all the core specialist Technical knowledge aspects in the A level course.
Potential learning outcomes:
Next 4 - 5 slides/pages of NEA / Length – 3 - 5 lessons (including student activity)
This is one of my TES units dealing with the 2021 A level NEA. Please look to the resources here for other sections (A and A1):
https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=25805054&q=A level NEA product design&shop=surfacedetail1
Also I have extensive NEA resources for the GCSE NEA, here:
https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=25805054&q=GCSE NEA&shop=surfacedetail1
I hope these help you and your students succeed!
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2021 AQA DT GCSE NEA Guide to Section E
This is the perfect resource for remote learning to get students enthused, confident and carrying on, with a high quality power point, with highly detailed guidance, examples and specialist technical knowledge, with relevant visuals and animations, YouTube tutorials, techniques and directed tasks to get them finishing off Section E!
This is an extremely comprehensive resource that covers this entire unit
Learning outcomes:
In this GCSE coursework task, Students will gain an understanding of:
How the mark scheme translates into chunked research tasks
The core and technical subject knowledge of section with strong emphasis on researching the correct tools, materials and equipment, as well as health and safety, quality control and relevance to their intended prototype manufacture
Two different pathways in representing the process of representing this intended manufacture: Either a more detailed manufacturing diary or a flowchart
How to present their final design concept, explaining its commercial viability and how it meets the requirements of their client.
How to consider viability of commercial manufacture, by comparing school vs. commercial industrial manufacturing processes, considering different scales of production in the process.
I have gone into an incredible level of detail on the manufacture processes, including:
Wasting processes, Sawing & jointing, Drilling, Turning , Polymer forming processes: Vacuum forming, Line bending , CAD CAM processes: Laser cutting, 3d printing, Metal processes: Casting, MIG welding, Soldering, Standard components and fixings, Knock down fittings, Fixings, Tensol glue, Epoxy resin, PVA glue, Finishes, Adding veneer, Painting with acrylic/stain/watercolour, and finally Varnishing. I also mention injection moulding and industrial processes.
This aspect of the power point alone makes this an invaluable resource for exam revision as it covers all the core specialist Technical knowledge aspects in the GCSE course.
Potential learning outcomes:
Next 4 - 5 slides/pages of NEA / Length – 3 - 5 lessons (including student activity)
This is the fifth part of my TES lessons dealing with the NEA that can be recorded on power point or paper, Please look to the resources here for section A (first two), section B and a combination section C/D unit/power point:
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
…to have a consistent beginning!
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Worried about what to teach Product Design students? finding it hard to get started and follow the NEA structure at the beginning? This is the perfect resource to get them carrying on and enthused with a high quality power point, with relevant visuals and animations, as well as questions, techniques and directed tasks to get them finishing off Section A and really having a much better idea of how to carry on!
This is tried, tested and the students had a very positive and studious response.
Learning outcomes:
In this Section A, NEA coursework task, Students will gain an understanding of:
• The importance of a good rationale, a contextual challenge and design problems and opportunities, as well as designing with a client in mind
• The importance of investigating using primary, secondary and client research, with extra information on client interviews and discussion of anthropometric, ergonomic and site specific research
• Inspiration: Time to start doing designs – initial concepts. CAD can also be used.
• Consider ongoing research throughout folder that will help an iterative design approach.
Potential learning outcomes:
Section A of NEA
Can be used for 4-5 lessons (including student activity)
Plenary activities for those students who might feel a bit overwhelmed and finding it difficult to start, included at end.
This is one of my 3 part TES units dealing with the 2021 NEA. Please look to the resources here for a consistent follow on!
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-nea-product-design-primary-research-12422264
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/2021-aqa-product-design-nea-brief-and-spec-12421572
I hope these help you and your students succeed!
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Worried about what to teach the Year 12 DT A level students in September 2020?
This is the perfect resource to get them started and enthused with a high quality power point (3 part lesson), with lots of visuals and animations, as well as questions that can stimulate conversation and help reconnect to prior knowledge. This will give students guidance of:
• What is Product Design
• The structure and the theory involved in the course
• What equipment to get and what to expect – In other words, how best to start!
• How to lay out work and take notes in lessons
This tried and tested 1 - 2 hour lesson will result in an tangible written outcome of 10+ pages!, including:
• Properties of materials – Mechanical and Physical
• Classifications of the following materials:
• Papers cards and boards
• Timbers
• Metals
• Polymers
• Biodegradable polymers
• Composites
• Smart materials
• Modern materials
• With a homework task
• And start of next lesson
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Power point:
The high end, attractive and informative power point has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
A lesson plan is also included (MS Publisher file).
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
• STEM cross curricular skills: The forces involved in flight, including thrust, lift and drag
• The component parts of a glider
• The history of flight and who are the Wright brothers?
• How to develop a range of designs, using different colour schemes
• How to develop one idea into a final design
• How to cut out, stick down and assemble a model glider.
• Literacy: Students will also learn a range of subject specific key words
Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories:
• ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
• The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.
Power point:
The high end, attractive and informative power point has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
A lesson plan is also included (MS Publisher file).
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
• What is the difference between shape and form?
• What primary and secondary colours are
• What complementary and harmonising colours are
• To gain confidence in drawing and rendering, using light source, three tone shading and isometric projection. This knowledge will culminate in them completing a final drawing.
• Literacy: Students will also learn a range of subject specific key words
Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories:
• ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
• The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.
Year 7 Graphics Lesson 1: Draw Squares & circles freehand – needs changing in the website
Power point:
The high end, attractive and informative power point has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
A lesson plan is also included (MS Publisher file).
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
• The history of typography
• The key aspects of what goes into typeface, lettering, font, including serif, sans serif, spacing and kerning
• How to use visual combinations to create creative and original typography
• How to annotate an design, communicating design decisions and aesthetic.
• How to develop an idea, improving and refining the design to make it better.
• Literacy: Students will also learn a range of subject specific key words
Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories:
• ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
• The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.
Power point:
The high end, attractive and informative power point has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
A lesson plan is also included (MS Publisher file).
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
• STEM: Cross-curricular to Mathematics
• How 3rd angle orthographic ‘translates’ into isometric projection?
• Of how valuable this type of drawing and projection is in design and designers
• What Notation of dimensions is in Engineering drawing, including leader line, extension lines, dimension figures, arrowheads, etc?
• Three activities of how to ‘translation’ of orthographic and isometric projection can be used for architecture, illustrative typography and also for ‘reverse translation’ in the Super challenge task.
• How to draw ellipses in isometric
• Literacy: Students will also learn a range of subject specific key words
Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories:
• ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
• The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.
This is an artist worksheet, that includes analysis questions about Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with straw hat – 1887/88. This is suitable for lesson, cover, home work or baseline assessment.
On this all in one sheet, there are boxes for students to:
copy and complete a Van Gogh image
write their answers in, discussing the style of the artist
Self/teacher assessment with WWW and EBI success criteria provided.
If you found this resource helpful, please leave positive comments, as this really helps. Thank you.
This is a really inspiring, interactive, fascinating, fun and creative lesson for students of all ages, touching on the following aspects of this most amazing painter Johannes Vermeer
Including:
A Power point and print resource that can be stretched over 2 - 3 hours/lessons, with 2 excellent activities for experienced and new teachers and an excellent cover resource!
• A to do starter activity
• An excellent artist factsheet and picture to copy for students to complete, with exemplars included
• Thoroughly researched and detailed history of the painter
• Comparison of his style to other Dutch artist, considering his contribution to art history
• A strong theme of literacy and art history throughout
• Links to other relevant artists, style and movements
• Art theory and technology that artists have used to replicate photorealistic imagery explained.
• A 2nd starter activity with literacy and key words: ‘Chiaroscuro’
• An amazing step by step animation of how to copy ‘The girl with the pearl earring’ by Vermeer in colouring pencils, using Grid and ‘Grisaille’ technique
• AFL: students use WWW and EBI throughout to self-assess on 1st activity - success criteria provided
• Home learning activity for students
I really hope you and your students enjoy this lesson as much as I enjoyed putting it together. I really love Vermeer and I hope you will too!
Please leave a positive comment if you liked this resource!
Keep your eyes peeled - I will be posting more artist lessons and a final piece project based on this series!
Printed as two worksheets, these will help produce fun and creative lesson outcomes for students of all ages. These are ideal for lessons, cover work, home work or baseline assessment.
Including:
• Two activities of how to ‘translate’ orthographic to isometric projection
• How to draw ellipses in isometric
If you found this resource helpful, please leave positive comments, as this really helps. Thank you.
Printed as an ‘all in one’ worksheet, this will help students with teh concept of circles in perspective. These are ideal for lessons, cover work, home work or starter activities
Including:
• step by step activities on how to ‘translate’ circles to isometric ellipses
• How to draw ellipses in isometric
If you found this resource helpful, please leave positive comments, as this really helps. Thank you.
3-D Printer Prototype Project
The rationale:
As D&T teachers return to school, we need a basic tool/CAD CAM based project to achieve the balance of remaining safe, but also providing an exciting practical project for students. This project is tried and tested and the kids love it.
This is designed to simulate an NEA project, where students will research, design, model, prototype and evaluate a 3D printed object for a specific target market.
This 7 x 1 hour lesson mini project is an ‘all in one’ prepared resource, containing lesson by lesson PowerPoints, accompanying worksheets, Youtube videos, home learning and examples that model success criteria. This resource that can be used by subject specialists and non D&T teachers alike, perfect for cover work as well.
PowerPoints:
The project is driven by high end, attractive and informative power points, which have detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter(‘To do’), main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
Learning Outcomes:
This design and make project is aimed at Year 9 and Year 10 students, who will gain an understanding of how to:
• Lesson 1: Scales of production and commercial processes
• Lesson 2: Primary and secondary research methods
• Lesson 3: How to draw and annotate scrap views, sectional views and rendering in 3-D.
• Lesson 4: How to make mock up models in Styrofoam using workshop tools
• Lesson 5: How to use a user friendly CAD modelling program
• Lesson 6: How to use a 3-D printer to create a toothbrush prototype and evaluate project
Project plan:
A scheme of work is also included as a MS Publisher file. This explains the: learning outcomes, starter, main and plenary activities as well as resources required and homework.
Work sheets:
These are mainly PPT files, but the final evaluation is MS Publisher, which is differentiated in the form of sentence starters.
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In these 4x artist worksheets, students can work independently, researching the artist and then copying the image to better understand the style of the artist. These are ideal to accompany art theory lessons, cover lessons, home learning or even baseline assessment.
These are particularly helpful for teaching students about:
• A tonal range and natural forms (Ernst Heckel and Karl Blossfelt)
• Expressionism and expressive art (Kathe Kollwitz)
• 1 point perspective in a Neo-classical style (Georgio De Chirico)
On this all in one sheet, there are boxes for students to:
• Copy and complete an artist image
• Write their answers in, discussing the style and life of the artist
• Self/teacher assessment with WWW (What went well) and Improvement comment, with success criteria provided.
If you found this resource helpful, please leave positive comments, as this really helps. Thank you.
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
I hope these help you and your students succeed!
Please add a positive review/some stars if you found this useful as this really helps; THANK YOU!
Vincent Van Gogh theory and Practice
This is a really inspiring, interactive, fascinating, fun and creative lesson for students of all ages, touching on the following aspects of this most amazing painter Vincent Van Gogh
Including:
A Power point and print resource that can be stretched over 2 - 3 hours/lessons, excellent for experienced and new teachers and an excellent cover resource!
• A to do activity
• A literacy starter activity with lots of key words
• An excellent artist fact sheet and picture to copy for students to complete, with exemplars included
• Thoroughly researched and detailed history of the painter
• Letters from the artist, explaining significance of his contribution to art history
• A strong theme of literacy and art history throughout
• Links to other relevant artists, style and movements
• Colour theory and symbolism
• An amazing step by step animation of how to copy Starry Night by Vincent in Oil pastel
• Lots of quotes from Van Gogh throughout
• AFL: students use WWW and EBI throughout to self-assess on the two main activities - success criteria provided
• A choice of home learning activities for students, including challenge and super challenge
• Teacher notes on activities and resources at end of PPT
I really hope you and your students enjoy this lesson as much as I enjoyed putting it together. I really love Van Gogh and I hope you will too!
Please leave a positive comment if you liked this resource!
Keep your eyes peeled - I will be posting more artist lessons and a final piece project based on this series!
These 3 sheets will help produce inspiring, interactive, fun and creative lesson outcomes for students of all ages, touching on the following aspects of this most amazing painter Johannes Vermeer. These are suitable for lessons, cover work, home work or baseline assessment.
Including:
Vermeer artist factsheet 1
This is an artist worksheet that includes analysis questions about Vermeer’s Lady Maidservant Holding Letter - 1666.
On this all in one sheet, there are boxes for students to:
• Copy and complete a Vermeer image
• Write their answers in, discussing the style and life of the artist and analysis of the paintings events.
• Self/teacher assessment with WWW (What went well) and EBI (Even better if…) success criteria provided.
Vermeer gridded resource sheet & artist worksheet 2
• An attractive resource sheet, which includes a gridded copy of ‘The girl with the pearl earring’ by Vermeer that can be copied in any medium, using Grid technique on the student worksheet provided. The scale is 1:1 for ease of student’s use.
If you found this resource helpful, please leave positive comments, as this really helps. Thank you.
Power point:
The high end, attractive and informative power point has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included.
A lesson plan is also included (MS Publisher file).
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
• Free hand sketching
• Gain confidence in drawing freehand squares, rectangles and circles using guidelines, proportional measurement and outline.
• This will culminate in them drawing more complex combinations of these shapes.
• Literacy: Students will also learn a range of subject specific key words
Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories:
• ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
• The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.
Quality of line: Squares & circles
Power point:
The attractive, visual and informative power point has detailed instructions, step-by-step animations, with starter, main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included. A basic lesson plan is also included (publisher file).
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
• Free hand sketching
• Gain confidence in drawing freehand squares, rectangles and circles using guidelines, proportional measurement and outline.
• This will culminate in them drawing more complex combinations of these shapes.
• Students will also learn a wide range of subject specific key words that will underpin their design and technology vocabulary.
Worksheets:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories, with the ‘LA’ worksheets having additional support in terms of the outcomes as well as sentence stems, word banks, etc.
The second category of worksheet has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Super Challenges’.