Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
last minute cover lesson activity to design a healthy and nutritious flapjack
Includes success criteria
Simle instructions
Information o help them fulfill the success criteria
A lesson on calculating the total macro and micro nutrients provided by food ingredients and in a recipe.
This lesson provides
A starter on previous learning (simple and complex carbohydrates)
Learning objectives for lesson (All Most Some/ Expect Develop Stretch)
A think pair share (types of macro and micro nutrients)
Mini review activity (What are micro macro neither?)
Scaffolding (Calculating the nutrients in a recipe for an ingredient)
Task (Calculating the nutrients in a recipe for an ingredient)
Stretch Task (Calculating the total nutrients in a recipe)
Exit Card (Types of macro and micro nutrients)
Resources for all the nutrition of ingredients provided by spaghetti bolognese
This help sheet promotes independent learning for the the topic of woods and covers a majority of the criteria from the WJEC resistant materials specification on woods.
Pupils will require the following on their mobile / smart devices
QR code reader
the 'Aurasma' app
Then revision sheet also covers common misconceptions and advice on answering exam questions that require knowledge of wood.
Linked to my KS3 food topics -
Smoothie design
Pupils are producing smoothie in order to explain healthy eating and nutrition.
Part of there assessment is to plan and sequence how they make products.
This lessons helps them to investigate and plan a recipe card.
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B Telematics
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Revision resource or cover lesson for the 5 stages of risk assessments and why they are needed.
Example of risk assessment and activities to revise learning
Food lessons
1 - 3 food lessons planning evaluating and demonstrating a flapjack
Stater
Demonstration
Mini review on demonstration
sensory evaluation using star profile
Mini review
Planning activity
Differentiated support sheets
Exit card
A revision sheet that covers unit 2 of the WJEC food and nutrition Specification for the principles of nutrition
Macro and Micronutrients
RDA
Amino Acids
Good Fat V Bad Fat
Carbohydrates
Nutrition Labeling
A 4 hour learning activity/project that encourages independent learning to meet set outcomes.
This activity was developed as a short project based learning activity to compliment the work that the pupils do in school.
There are 3 milestones for the pupils to complete using the resources provided to answer a driving question.
Driving Question
How can we convince people to use eco-friendly products and reduce the impact they have on the planet?
Context
As a consumer you buy and throw away lots of products such as phones, pens, packaging. These products not only use lots of our resources but end up in landfills and cause pollution. We should all look to reduce our impact on the environment but as designers we should also consider how products impact the environment and look for ways to reduce that impact. Complete the milestones above to investigate the impact and how it can be reduced.
In the resource you will find an overview sheet and 4 suitable resource sheets to help pupils complete the desired outcomes.
This is a 10 hour project I created for pupils who are isolating or working from home during the Covid pandemic.
The premis of the project is to consider how design can have a positive impact on others. Pupils are expected to complete the project through independent learning were teacher support is not available.
In this project pupils will consider how they can design a product for someone with arthritis. They will look at existing products, carry out some research, create designs on paper and through tinkercad. They will model their designs using home made playdough and create a final pitch.
The project is designed so that their is some guidance on what the pupils need to learn or be able to achieve, links to internet resources to help them complete tasks and upload or provide evidance.
I use Google classroom to provide pupils with their own copy but you may want to adapt if pupils require paper copies.
In this lesson you will focus on the 4 main effects of an unhealthy diet.
Heart Disease
Diabetes
Tooth Decay and Obesity
This lesson follows on from the healthy eating guide, vitamins and minerals
Follow on lesson from simple carbohydrates
to explain complex carbohydrates (Polysaccharides) and their role in your diet
Cellulose Fibre
Starch
Glycogen
Also outlines diabetes and hypoglycaemic and foods rich in fibre
Mini reviews
Scaffolding Tasks
Exit Card
A revision sheet that can be easily followed by a student to do look/cover/test or make flash cards. Describes what they might be asked in an exam to familiarise themselves with questioning.
Extension task. get the pupils to create GCSE style questions from the examples given.
A lesson I gave on looking at the work of other designers focusing on Shigeru Miyamoto
Standard lesson
Starter
Video link
Scaffolding narrative about Shigeru Miyamoto
Mini Review
Task: Design an 8/16 bit pixel character
Extension task: design a pixel level
Pupils really engaged with this lesson and enjoyed the design activity
Cover lesson task or Homework
News article on Bionics with arguments for and against
Key Definitions task
Comprehension questions
60 word summary create an argument for and against.
A 4 hour learning activity/project that encourages independent learning to meet set outcomes.
This activity was developed as a short project based learning activity to compliment the work that the pupils do in school.
There are 5 milestones for the pupils to complete using the resources provided to answer a driving question.
Driving Question
When making a product for someone how do you know which materials are the most suitable, which size of material to order and what the cost will be? How can you ensure you are not left out of pocket after charging the customer?
In the resource you will find an overview sheet and 5 suitable resource sheets to help pupils complete the desired outcomes.
Description of Project
Whether you are a builder, carpenter, roofer, painter you will always need to buy the materials you need to make a product. Sometimes you are making a product to sell or providing a service and you will not want to be out of pocket.
Whenever you plan to make a product at home or in work you will need to know how much material you will need to make the product. If you order too little or the wrong size you will not be able to make the product. If you order too much you will be left with waste and will end up costing you more.
Before you start to make, you should plan out the exact size and quantity of a material you need and which stock form you need to order to get the shapes you need. You should then budget your product to make sure you can afford to make it or too calculate the cost of the product to enable you to make a profit
Wooden Table
You have been approached by a customer to make this simple coffee table and has given you a budget of £100. Before you make it you will need to work out which material would be the most suitable, how much material you need, what stock form you need to order.
Then you will have to calculate how much it will cost to make to make sure it is profitable for you to make it within the budget. Man does not work for free!