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!
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:
• Developing their drawing and visualising skills, increasing their ability to draw freehand more quickly and confidently.
• 5 different major activities, including a Super challenge task.
• The technique used for rendering a range of materials realistically, including; wood, concrete, metal, glass, rubber and plastic
• In-depth knowledge of rendering wood, metal and glass, with step by step guidance on how to get a great outcome
• How to create the illusion that an object is made from a particular material and describe how light falls on it.
• Literacy: Students will also learn a wide 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 the perfect resource for remote learning. This will get students enthused, confident and carrying on independently, supported by a high quality power point, 1 and half hours of (private) YouTube tutorials, stunning visuals and animations, as well as relevant questions, techniques and directed tasks to get them finishing off Section C & D
This is an extremely comprehensive resource that covers 2 units.
Learning outcomes:
How the mark scheme translates into chunked creative tasks, including:
How to draw a really well annotated generated idea from section C, including scrap views and essential links back to Specification and Brief, discussing importance of clear annotation
How to draw rectangular prisms and ellipses in isometric projection, with a strong emphasis on rendering realistic textures to communicate information on choice of materials
How to go about the cardboard modelling aspect at home with recycled materials
How to develop design ideas of multifunctional prototypes on sketch up free – also how to create separate components such as drawers and even door knobs
How to draw orthographic projections of prototypes on sketch up free
How to draw exploded wireframe views of prototypes on sketch up free
How to draw cutting lists of prototypes on sketch up free and use MS Excel to create purchase lists
How to research relevant materials (components covered above) using tables and inspiration for testing the properties of materials
How to write a Manufacturing specification
Potential learning outcomes:
Next 4 - 5 slides/pages of NEA / Length – 4 - 5 lessons (including student activity)
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!
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Attached is a Word document:
Learning objectives: Who is Margaret Calvert, what is a pictogram and what is important in a road sign?
Learning Outcome:
After learning about Margaret Calvert, students could consider what is the best, most simple and easy to understand pictograms to use for the following activities:
• Wear a mask! • Child walk with adult • Use safety goggles
• Slippery surface! • Don’t run! • No mobile phone in car!
The students draw and annotate these.
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This lesson focusses on drafting skills, including material rendering in 6 different textures, scrap views, cross sections and principles of legible and neat annotation. The source materials focus on a toothbrush, however this could relate to any product.
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 how to do:
Scrap views
Sectional views
Rendered drawings
How to render 6 different textures
The importance of clear and easy read annotation
Links to NEA
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.
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D&T Evaluation Worksheets
The reason behind these sheets:
I was getting frustrated with how difficult it was to get students to ‘evaluate’, rather than ‘describe’, as they often did in the D&T project evaluations. The emphasis in these worksheets is to get the student thinking and explaining by answering questions about every stage of the ‘design and make’ process. This has helped them learn the meaning of evaluation through the process of asking reflective questions.
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
Clear success criteria to guide students on what constitutes a good outcome
Evaluation questions for every part of a ‘design and make’ project, including research methods, Design Process, Mock ups/prototype stage, Manufacture process, CAD/CAM process, including testing and conclusion
How to structure their response in complex sentences, using P.E.E., supported by using differentiated materials.
Power point:
The attractive and visual power point can be used on the white board and also printed as a worksheet, as can the question slide
Power point Worksheets/categories:
The worksheets are differentiated into two categories, so that students who have learning difficulties (LA) will not be overwhelmed and will have much more literacy support with sentence stems.
The second category that caters to the middle and higher ability student has differentiation in the form of more open ended tasks as well as ‘Challenges’. I have left super challenges blank so a student can fill this in themselves to be more independent!
In theory, one sheet could be used to support the other, or even used for lower school VS. upper school evaluations
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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:
• What is two point perspective drawing?
• How to create realistic perspective drawings, with 3 challenges including: basic cubes, letter shapes, to complex city street views
• 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’.
The learning concept:
The concept is that the acronym SCAMPER is used by each consecutive student to alter the last students’ design. I normally allow each student ten minutes per alteration. The students really enjoy this activity and it can be stretched to a 1 hour duration
Learning Outcomes:
In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of:
Different design movements
Free hand sketching as they can use other’s designs as a springboard for inspiration
Gain confidence in annotating each other’s designs
This will culminate in them drawing more complex combinations of these designs, which can then be judged by the student or peer assessed to describe the favourite design.
Students will also learn subject specific key words that will underpin their design and technology vocabulary.
Power point:
The attractive and visual power point can be used on the white board and also printed as a worksheet.
Printed as two worksheets, there is a blank and also a differentiated version where one idea is already started so that students do not struggle with ‘blank page syndrome’. This has first example models success criteria in the form of detailed annotation and a strong product design influenced by the example swatches on the left side of the page.
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!
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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.
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6 lesson ‘all in one’ prepared resource for graphic design lessons - included are:
• Lesson 1: Draw Squares & circles freehand
• Lesson 2: Draw in Oblique and Isometric projection
• Lesson 3: Render 3-D forms using tone
• Lesson 4: How to use colour and rendering in 3-D
• Lesson 5: How to label and annotate a design
• Lesson 6: Learn about flight, design and make a glider
A fun and engaging project where students will learn the basic principles of design,explore imaginative and original ways of designing, then they will create an original graphic design product.
The powerpoints have detailed step by step instructions and a great quantity of visual examples for a project that should take between 6 and 8 lessons and differentiated booklets that can be used by subject specialists and non-D&T teachers alike, perfect for cover work as well.
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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:
• 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’.
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 annotation and how Leonardo De Vinci used it?
• What are correct graphical layout conventions?
• How to communicate using clear labelling and annotation
• How to annotate using existing designs
• How to design a unique graphic product (badge) and then annotate their own designs
• Literacy: Students will also learn a lots 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 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?
• To gain confidence in drawing and rendering, using light source, three tone shading and isometric projection.
• How to draw combinations of these shapes to create a realistic three dimensional 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:
• 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’.
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).
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:
• 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’.