Hello, I trained as an industrial designer, then found myself training as a D&T teacher (great choice!). I've been at it for nearly 20 years now. I was a subject leader for 10 years, leading one of only 10 schools in the country to be recognised by the SSAT as leading edge for D&T. I'm also a past recipient of the DATA annual awards for leadership. I am now in senior leadership, but still teach D&T to KS3,KS4 & KS5 weekly. All resources are well designed, and do what they say on the tin!
Hello, I trained as an industrial designer, then found myself training as a D&T teacher (great choice!). I've been at it for nearly 20 years now. I was a subject leader for 10 years, leading one of only 10 schools in the country to be recognised by the SSAT as leading edge for D&T. I'm also a past recipient of the DATA annual awards for leadership. I am now in senior leadership, but still teach D&T to KS3,KS4 & KS5 weekly. All resources are well designed, and do what they say on the tin!
I readiness for this year’s exam season, this is a 3 page countdown calendar made in powerpoint which asks a key question each day in the run up to the exam.
Dates are from Easter to the end of June.
I usually encourage my children to pin the 3 sheets up in their kitchen, and answer the question whilst making breakfast! The students like it, and it often brings about greater revision as the questions lay bare the gaps in knowledge.
Although in powerpoint, the page is set up to be A4, so will print perfectly on a sheet (tip: I usually save as pdf before printing and then print that, as you can get it closer the edges as a pdf!)
NB: The template has questions for GCSE D&T within, and the exam date is also for AQA GCSE D&T, but just needs editing to suit your own subject, Key Stage and classes.
English / Maths / Science / Geography / History / RE / French / German / Drama / Music / Food / CS / Business Studies / ICT
Also enclosed is a few hints for good revision (including a slide you can use when launching this)
Hope it helps!
Powerpoint designed to support the teaching of UCD.
14 slides including starter/consolidation tasks along with a card sort task based on Maslow’s hierarchy.
Card sort task: Print off the PDF using the ‘multiple’ option, and 2 x 2 pages per side, double sided. There being 5 steps makes this a bit wasteful - sorry!
Hand out: This was just to make the notes easier!
Powerpoint designed to cover the required theory for IP within A-level D&T.
Patents
Registered Designs
Copyright
Trademarks
Combinations
How to apply & examples
13 slides - lesson includes spaced retrieval / starter and consolidation activities.
21 Slide powerpoint covering the necessary elements of theory for AQA GCSE Design & Technology.
Lesson has a starter question, consolidate question and activity throughout (VOCAPPS).
Powerpoint written to support the understanding of manufacturing efficiencies, particularly:
Modify designs to make them more efficient to manufacture, including:
Why and how you would reduce the number of manufacturing processes to make a product
How choice of materials affects the use, care and disposal of products
Application of the six Rs of sustainability
Product maintenance (fixings, parts, and even software)
An 18 slide powerpoint, with a mixture of theory, tasks and youtube links as relevant.
Theory powerpoint to support the teaching of CPA to KS5 students, and to aid in the creation of their own within their NEA.
18 slides with examples and tasks.
A lesson which could be used as part of an induction process for KS4 or KS5.
Lesson focusses around refelctions on a user profile, followed by the design of a water bottle for the user (handouts include space for itterations).
This resource was designed to be used alongside ‘user profile boxes’ which is where you make up 4 boxes, with each box containing 10-15 posessions of a key person e.g.
Retired lady - china mug, saga magazine, item of clothing etc.
Young boy - plastic dinosaur, lego magazine, etc.
Initial ‘investigation’ and user profile would be carried out in groups (one group per box). Students complete profile sheet. NB: you will never answer all questions from the items in a box, so assumptions are needed reflecting on evidence to hand.
Students then individually design their bottles, but then present them back to the sub groups afterwards, and a ‘professional argument’ to cross check the design suitability is structured in.
A silly one off lesson which takes around an hour. Works well for induction sessions. Lesson starts off with a deadpan question about if students saw the news? What follows are some slides to support a highly spurious tale about rockets being fired from the Isle of White into deep space, supported by some faked newspaper articles about aliens. It all comes down to a meeting is needed, and it will be in the O2 arena (The Millenium Dome as it’s visible from space), but what will they sit on? How do you design a chair for a creature you’ve never met?
The lesson is designed to encourage interaction within groups of students who don’t know each other, and also raises some questions about user centered design.
Pairs / Groups then present their ideas (with good evidence about where the tail goes).
It lasts about an hour, brings a smile to the face, and engages students.
Included is a powerpoint (and a pdf version too). There is no lesson plan, it somewhat ‘runs itself’ from the powerpoint.
Enclosed is a printable self contained cover lesson based on the Red Bull Air Race. Essentially students sketch a series of primitive forms in isometric, then add an arrow to show the path of the plane.
Arrows to show openings, swings, drawers etc. are not used very well by students in product design, so this task was designed to bring on that skill.
The sheet is printable in A3, and would has instructions enclosed. It also has a PowerPoint to accompany it, including stage steps, if that facility is available (including a 3 minute video to engage the students on what an air race is like).
All files are fully editable (hand out made in PowerPoint too).
I have used this for many different age groups successfully, and usually leads to a very quite and engaged cover lesson!
A Microsoft Word template (and an example) of a specific risk assessment.
I have included an excel tracking grid of all needed specific risk assessments (for my school, you will need to edit for your own situation), which I used to allocate the writing of them amongst my team.
A one hour theory session covering the elements needed for energy generation and storage. Includes course textbook page links. The powerpoint has been written to aid note taking (i.e. when you move to the next slide the key elements of the previous are still seen) - I have found this very useful for early in year 10.
A set of 14 powerpoint slides, to be used as a ‘landing’ or ‘holding’ page for GCSE D&T lessons, while a group arrives online.
Essentially, start your meeting, start the presentation, and leave it full screen while the children enter.
Each slide will take around 5 minutes for them to complete individually. They are framed whereby they can compose their answers in the chat function, and are not to hit send until asked.
Topics cover a variety of theory from across the subject, and each slide has a moving gif image to engage.
Enclosed in this pack are three resources for distribution.
Parental/Student focussed help sheet for installing the classroom app, and accessing via the web (you will need to personalise some elements of this to your own school, but will save you hours!)
Teacher’s help sheet as to the best ways of accessing and using Google Meets.
A teacher’s help sheet for making more efficient use of assessment within Google Classroom (such as rubrics, voice dictation and such).
All have been used for a few months, and have had positive feedback.
A two page document for staff including editable versions to make it bespoke to your school situation.
Page 1 - Refelction on what was covered last year against key points.
Page 2 - Planning (or re-planning) owing to interuption to learning.
A series of 5 sheets which can be printed in A4 or A3. The rendering sheets will take around a period, and the perspective sheets a double period. Each are self guided being suitable for a non specialist.
A simple to edit powerpoint based learning journey, coloured to national curriculum colours. This could be used for any subject as a template, or modified to your own school for D&T.
All images are copyright free (thenounproject).
Fonts are embedded, but to install the main one is ‘Londrina’ available for free online in multiple places.
A series of 5 worksheets walking you through various drawing techniques.
Cross Hatching & Tonal Range
One Point Perspective
Rendering a Toaster
Rendering Shapes
Two Point Perspective
A 7 lesson module of work suitable for both ICT and D&T. Primarily Year 7 and 8 (but could go a year further in either direction with minor changes).
Resource comes with full scheme of learning (with week by week lesson plans within), weekly PowerPoints, with youtube clips to stimulate.
Suggested software to accompany is ‘Monkey Jam’ - freeware, but equally will work well on the many free apps on phones and tablets.
Work booklet is a PowerPoint, which I usually host on Microsoft Teams, with every child having their own. The project is mostly paperless, apart from the peer review sheets for evaluative purposes.
Loved by children, and great to insert the finished clips into assemblies etc fr subject promotion.