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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.

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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.
Food and Nutrition - Dietary lifestyle choices
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Food and Nutrition - Dietary lifestyle choices

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Food and nutrition lesson on lifestyle choices and diet. Covers individuals with specific lifestyle needs to include vegetarians: lacto-ovo, lacto, vegan, and those with religious beliefs that affect choice of diet to include Hindu, Muslim, Jewish Lesson contains Starter Learning objectives Card sort Summary of 60 Mini review GCSE questions Exit card resources
Hospitality and Catering: Use of technology in industry
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Hospitality and Catering: Use of technology in industry

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Lesson Overview: This lesson focuses on how various technologies are transforming the efficiency and customer experience in the hospitality and catering industries. Pupils will explore the roles of key technologies such as Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS), contactless payments, iPads/tablets, apps, WiFi, QR codes, drones, robots, Near Field Communication (NFC), and LCD displays in improving operations. Through real-life examples and interactive tasks, pupils will gain an understanding of how these technologies contribute to the smooth functioning of hospitality establishments. They will also analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each technology and how these innovations impact both the business and the customer experience.
Hospitality and Catering: Costings and portion control
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Hospitality and Catering: Costings and portion control

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Understanding the Importance of Portion Control in Food Service Objective: Students will explore the concept of portion control, why it is critical in food service and catering, and how it impacts cost. Learning Outcomes: Define portion control and explain its significance in food service. Identify key reasons for maintaining portion control (cost management) Activities: Calculating food costs based on ingredient weight , ingredient costs and dish weight. Calculating Gross and net profit considering verhead costs Brief discussion on the definition of portion control and its role in food and beverage services. Supporting Information Review: Explore key reasons for portion control (cost management, consistency, health, and waste reduction) with examples. Stretch It Challenge Task: Students research, reflect, and write about why portion control is important in a business. Create a visual guide comparing portion control for two dishes, with tips on using portioning tools. Role-play or discuss handling a scenario where a customer complains about portion size. Reflection and Discussion Class discussion on how portion control influences both the business and customer satisfaction, and the impact on profit margins and sustainability.
Design and Technology WJEC Airbus: looking at the work of other designers
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Design and Technology WJEC Airbus: looking at the work of other designers

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A lesson I gave to highlight the work of Airbus Covers the requirements of the WJEC Design and Technology specification 2017. Also could be used to talk about material properties and uses. Standard lesson Starter Lesson objectives Video link Mini Review Narrative slides about the Airbus A380 scaffolding for final activity Think Pair share (material properties and uses) Final task: Create an infographic on the Airbus Exit card
Home Based Learning Activity: Sustainability
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Home Based Learning Activity: Sustainability

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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.
DT Project Home Based Learning - Toothbrush Design
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DT Project Home Based Learning - Toothbrush Design

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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.
Home Based Learning Activity/project: Wood Craft and Planning
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Home Based Learning Activity/project: Wood Craft and Planning

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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!
Fear of Failure Halloween assembly whole School Ks2 Ks3 Ks4
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Fear of Failure Halloween assembly whole School Ks2 Ks3 Ks4

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An assembly I delivered for halloween about fear and the fear of failure and but can be used at anypoint of the year (just remove the halloween specific slide) The only thing I have removed is the picture of me combatting my fear of heights, you can personalise for your own. Lasted around 15 - 20 minutes with a link to video