A self-guided activity booklet where students research, design and make a model of an innovative mobile phone (both UK and US versions included!) Encouraging your students to get creative and design products helps them develop an important life skill in how to solve problems. Problem solving is a crucial skill to teach our students as it helps them apply their all the knowledge they have gained to real life scenarios – after all, what use is having knowledge if you don’t know how to use it! This “Design a Phone” project is easy to introduce as it can be a taught unit as part of your curriculum or it will also work for individual or group work, ideal for Gifted and Talented, extra-curricular clubs, homework project and extension work! Each page has directions of what to do so students can work independently, and there are example pages included of each section should they require some guidance. This project is a great way to develop problem solving, creativity and entrepreneurship in your students! Activity includes: • Teacher’s notes of how to implement the activity with your students • Cover page • Situation and brief • Mind mapping activity • Client research • Existing products research • Consumer research • Initial designs • Development of designs • Final design • Modelling • Evaluation • Marketing presentation • Design an advert Benefits: • Develops problem solving skills • Opportunity to be creative in a real world problem • Excellent activity for individual or group work, Gifted and Talented students, extra-curricular clubs, homework projects and extension work • Examples included to help in your instruction or if students want some guidance • Lots of opportunity for differentiation by outcome • Can be used as a “Dragon’s Den” activity • Opportunity for teaching entrepreneurial skills So encourage your students to develop their creativity and problem solving skills with these real world design activity projects. What use is knowledge if it is never applied? Enjoy!

A step by step guide to drawing cartoon characters (heads and faces!). This resource comes with both a printable workbook and PowerPoint, so you can go through it together as a class or students can work independently. So many students have a fear of drawing because they think they’re not good at it. But like many other things, it’s a skill that they can learn! Being able to draw cartoon characters is a fantastic tool to have as you can bring creativity into a range of your lessons, for example: • Expressing mood in reading and writing activities • Illustrations with story writing • ‘Feelings’ topics in foreign languages • Creation stations • Test prep down time • Flip books • Early finishers • Design activities • Art Integration With this resource, you can teach your students how to draw cartoon faces, even if you have no idea yourself! You have a PowerPoint and workbook for your students that guides you step by step how to draw your character, with lots of opportunities for extension work in adding features and even emotions! So if you’re looking for some fun art integration opportunities in your lessons, or just want to take some creative time out for your students to have fun doodling, whip out this resource and watch your students have oodles of doodles of fun! Not to mention, you can always use it to celebrate National Cartoonists Day on 5th May every year ;) Have fun doodling!