This document includes profiles for all the required designers for the AQA A-Level Product Design Specification. Includes: James Dyson Philippe Starck Margaret Calvert Dieter Rams CHarles and Ray Eames Marianne Brandt Can be used as a revision resource.

This power point document contains profiles for all the required movements for the A-Level Product Design specification including: Arts & Crafts Art Deco Modernism Streamlining Post Modernism Each movement has an overview, details of key characteristics & philosophies as well as examples of items made as part of the movement and a range of different artist/designers. This could be used as a revision resource.

A design brief to be used as a mini project with Y12 students studying A-Level Product Design but could easily be used with GCSE students also. The resource includes a brief and basic criteria plus a detailed content list for the accompanying project folder. The brief is based around creating a flat pack chair for a child suitable to it in with an existing company range. The resource is editable so can be adapted to meet the needs of your student if necessary. UPDATED: Now includes basic lesson powerpoints & feedback sheet.

A simple smart and modern materials reference sheet, ideal to use as a poster or as a revision sheet.

I devloped these resources to use to assess the basic abilities of new students in Design & Technology. The baseline assessment can be run in all areas of technology and covers general skills like rendering, measuring, designing and the use of basic tools like scissors. Our students come from a range of feeder schools and come with a variety of different skills, this allows us to compare them easily. This sceme can be run in any of the technology areas and does not require specific materials other than the basic stationary and thin card. Included is a powerpoint that can be used to guide students through the task, a work booklet for students to complete and a scheme of work which details each lesson. Aimed to run over 4 x 1hr lessons but all resources are editable so can easily be adapted but can also be used as is.

A set of subject specific numeracy posters for Food, Textiles & Product Design.

A technology based numeracy mat which can be displayed on desks in classrooms but could also be used as a poster. This mat covers all the different areas of Design & Technology.

A blooms taxonomy poster designed to suit all areas of Design & Technology.

Includes in these resources are a range of different activities developing in complexity to teach students how to use a drawing board and associated tools to create a range of different drawings including isometric drawing and orthographic projections plus adding dimensions. Included is a set of worksheets, a PowerPoint to set the activities off plus a SOW giving an overview o each lesson.

The project is a travel game designed to be enclosed inside a CD case. Students work to design and develop a game design that can be laser cut. They then also develop a CD sleeve using graphics skills. Extension tasks can be used to develop a blister packaging or the game. This project includes various resources including a project plan, student work booklet, example templates.

A set of recipes used to tech students a range of different cooking skills with a sweet focus. These were used as part of a Bake Off project where students were taught a range of skills before developing their own recipes to complete in a bake off style competition. All recipes can be cooked in 1 hour and include picture stages as well as written stages to allow for differentiation. All recipes are editable so can be adapted or your own use if needed.

This resource can be used as a poster or table/desk mat for students to use in lessons. Covers a range of different keywords and descriptive words that can be used in literacy activities. Also includes annotation and product analysis resources.

A word of the week powerpoint with a word for each school week, can be displayed on screens around school, printed as a display or used as a starter activity. Full editable.

This document includes profiles for all the designers as listed in the AQA GCSE Design & Technology Specification. Designers included: Alexander McQueen Aldo Rossi Aljoud Lootah Charles Rennie Macintosh Coco Chanel David Adjaye Elsie Owusu Ettore Sottsass Gerrit Reitveld Harry Beck Joe Casely-Hayford Karim Rashid Kusheda Mensah Louis Comfort Tiffany Marcel Breuer Mary Quant Morag Myerscough Norman Foster Philippe Starck Pierre Davis Raymond Templier Rei Kawakubo Sir Alec Issigonis The Singh Twins Vivienne Westwood William Morris Yinka Ilori Zaha Hadid. Can be used as a revision resource or printed and presented as a display.

This project includes editable powerpoint lessons and a work booklet for a basic MDF desk tidy. We use this project as an introduction to basic manufacturing and surface finishes for Y10 but could easily be adapted for lower years. It could also be extended to add in more design elements e.g. drawer inserts and drawer knobs.