Teacher of D&T and Art for 17 years +; teaching A level, KS4 & KS3, with KS2 Primary Liaison.
I love producing active resources for learning in DT - these are all activities that I use in my classroom or have used for cover work for colleagues.
Teacher of D&T and Art for 17 years +; teaching A level, KS4 & KS3, with KS2 Primary Liaison.
I love producing active resources for learning in DT - these are all activities that I use in my classroom or have used for cover work for colleagues.
One of my favourite series of lessons to teach, using a group activity for the class to be the production line of an Origami Shirt Factory. This practical activity takes **very little prep **- paper, felt-tips, glue stick and the pupil worksheet.
The pupils love this activity and it provides them with first hand knowledge when adding the shirts they have made to their worksheets with the manufacturing information annotated around them.
Lesson Powerpoint has two starter activities to get pupils thinking about Volumes of Production,along with my step by step photos of how to make the shirts with the adaptions they need for each method of production. There are teacher notes on the slides to support you organising the activity in the classroom.
With information slides to introduce keywords and show the different set up & unit costs for each production method, that pupils can use to support the annotating of each production.
Worksheet has the the two starter activities on, pages for each production method and a glossary table for pupils to complete the defnitions to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding.
Scale of Production - Adaption task worksheet. I used this as a homework activity. It includes a wordbank of materials and components to help pupils think more widely about the design task.
Second Activity for Batch Production - Textiles Practical. Powerpoint with the activity instructions and outcomes expected from each Batch Factory.
I set this as a cover lesson for a year 10 class, the cover teacher and the pupils loved it. They made brilliant candy cane mice. Pupils were able to demonstrate their knowledge of how the production line needed to be organised, producing quality products that they then took home after the judging of the winning factory.
Small amount of prep for this activity - resources felt, buttons, embroidery and sewing machine thread, scissors and needle. Slides printing out for each factory - Task and outcomes, Workers of the factory, material & component resource pack, Mouse paper pattern.
Textiles Novelty fleece hat, pupils are working to a design brief & design specification where they can select their own Target Customer. The lesson powerpoint has lots of pupil outcomes showing how they have been successful in meeting the brief & specification.
Lesson Powerpoint introduces the Design brief & specifcation, research that includes Analysis of Existing products with a homework task for inspiration / moodboard images, to support the initial ideas and final developed design & annotation. This is to develop pupils understanding of all the different materilas, components, themes they could use in their own work. Covers the basic structure of the hat, and supports the making in the design process - helping pupils understand how imagery will need to be place to be successful in the making.
Photographs and text are all editable in the powerpoint.
Resource slides are at the end of the powerpoint to print out - eg x3 moodboards of images for absent pupils or absent homework :-). x1 Page of existing hat products to be cut up and used in the product analysis task.
Knowledge Organiser - supporting keywords, design brief and the skills being built in the unit of work.
Pupil Workbook - Has pages to support the research of the design brief - analysis of who the target customer is, analysis of existing products, design pages with self assesment criteria to rag rate / www/ ebi.
Practical Prototype pages to develop skills ahead of the final make - sewing machine driving test, setting sewing machine stitches / widths & lengths,applique protype on a simple shape to sew on the sewing machine to learn how to line up the presser foot with the zigzag stitch, hand sewing prototype pages for blanket stitch and buttons. All can be self assessed using the rag rating against statements, which will help them formulate www/ebi.
Evaluation rag rating and a series of questions for them to consider their overall result. SCAMPER design development page to design changes post-making.