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 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.

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’.

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’.

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: • Of what are different types of three dimensional projection and drawing? • Of how to draw isometric projection drawings, with 3 challenges including: basics shapes, more complex shapes, to a super challenge that is very hard! • Of how to use a good quality of line drawing shapes in Isometric projection • Of how to add three tone shading to make their 3-D drawings more realistic • 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). There will be three challenging tasks in this lesson, including a Task analysis, initial ideas page and a final idea page where students can make a clock Learning Outcomes: In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of: • How to read, understand and respond to a design brief for a specific client • How to use a spider diagram/mind map as a tool for analysis • How designers use mascots to promote products • How to use mascots as part of a design to make it more attractive • How to develop, design, annotate and make an educational device to help younger children tell the time. • There will be lots of literacy in this lesson! 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: • More complex level tow point perspective knowledge and skills, including: SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS core shadow and cast shadow • How to create realistic perspective cast shadow effects in two point perspective drawings – including 2 main activities: these are challenging tasks! • 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 • Commercial packaging, its uses and how it is designed • What are development nets and what are their characteristics? • What is a ‘point of display’? • How to transform a 2-d shape into a 3-d shape • How to develop and design the graphics of their packaging, culminating in a graphic practical task to make a point of display. • There will be lots of literacy in this lesson! 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 (that can be printed out) This 2 in 1 resource is a fun student activity for Food Technology and Design and Technology lessons to remind students about good hygiene & routines for lessons. This could easily be altered to suit textiles or other similar D&T areas. Includes: Title/name box for student Word bank of activities for students 6 x storyboard/sequence boxes with circles for numbering sequence, that students can fill with illustrations Lines under each box for explaining activity Success criteria and assessment for learning (‘What Went Well’ and ‘Even Better If’, as well as ‘Make It Better’ for self/peer marking) Duration up to 1 hour with discussion of AfL Food teachers have said that this really helpful especially with a new class and students enjoy coming up with routines and getting creative! Please leave a positive comment/feedback if you found this resource helpful. It 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’.

This lesson focusses on helping students understand scales of production and also an in depth understanding of 3-D printing and injection moulding processes, that students will annotate and take notes on. These are typical exam questions all covered in one lesson with two separate worksheets. Perfect for cover lessons. PowerPoint: This lesson is driven by a high end, attractive and informative power point, which has detailed instructions and notes, step-by-step animations, with starter(‘To do’), main and plenary activities, as well as home learning included. The students really enjoyed this lesson and also it is relatively easy to conduct especially under the current circumstances. Learning Outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of: continuous, batch and one off production and consider the differences Students learn about injection moulding and 3-D printing, gaining an detailed insight into these two processes Links to NEA and exam revision Lesson plan: A Lesson plan 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. Please leave a positive review if you found these resources helpful, Thank You!

GCSE/A level CAD Challenge Design your dream headphones! This extremely comprehensive resource that covers at least 2-3 lessons is suitable for both GCSE and A level classes (whom I have tried and tested this with and they have fed back how much they enjoyed it!). The 1st idea to get them working independently to learn new design skills and specialist technical knowledge. The 2nd idea is to get them away from ‘design fixation’ which I have found a lot with the NEA’s. This is the perfect resource for remote learning to get students enthused, confident and carrying on independently, with a high quality power point, with highly detailed guidance, examples and specialist technical knowledge, with relevant visuals and animations, YouTube tutorials and directed tasks. This is also suitable as cover work. Learning outcomes: Students will gain an understanding of: Secondary research techniques (mood board) How to gain knowledge by watching a YouTube video (the link is only available through this purchase) and then go to creatively develop design ideas of headphones, using the CAD program, sketch up free Detailed Specialist Technical subject knowledge with page numbers already cross-referenced and a detailed explanation of the process already included with strong emphasis on researching the correct machinery, materials and equipment, as well as what scale of production. Extension tasks: Create a flowchart of headphone manufacture Potential learning outcomes: 3-4 power point slides/ Length: 2 – 3 lessons (including student activity) Please look at my other resources to find similarly highly detailed, high quality resources that are up to date for 2021 for both GCSE and A level design and technology and product design NEA’s and courses I hope these help you and your students enjoy and learn as it did mine! Please add a positive review/some stars if you found this useful as this really helps; THANK YOU!