Packaging symbols and a framework for students to use when analysing packaging you have brought in for them to look at. Can be used as part of a lesson or as a revision task.

Match up activity to start - based around different types of energy. Moves on to look at how mechanical and chemical energy is stored. We did a learning activity in the lesson then the students went back to the sheet to complete it. Answers below. Mechanical storage Compression Tension Motion Chemical storage Batteries Gases Solid fuel Food Finishing with a flow diagram exercise where students work out where they have gained, used and lost energy throughout the day.

Print on A3 double sided. Students can track their revision and use the RED, AMBER and GREEN boxes to self assess their knowledge.

Fill in the blanks (word banks are at the bottom of the sheet) and explain advantages and disadvantages.

Can be used as a station activity or as individual tasks. I used it as a station activity with my class (set up 3 double stations and they had to travel around all of them completing three tasks) Then went though the answers with them at the end - answer sheets are available for them to self assess!

Designed for students to use independently to revise the content for the exam. They can use online resources or a textbook to support their revision. I use the AQA GCSE Product Design textbook. Print on A3.

Designed for students to use independently to revise the content for the exam. They can use online resources or a textbook to support their revision. I use the AQA GCSE Product Design textbook. Print on A3

Can be used as a station activity or however you wish! Three different stations/sets of questions included. Took me a whole lesson to deliver. and give them an opportunity to mark. I had the answers printed - in envelopes on the tables that they were only allowed to open at the end of their time at that station. Questions are from past papers with answers attached. Product analysis question included as well.

Print page 1 on A3 a the student worksheet. The powerpoint will go through the activities for you, you can control the pace of the lesson very easily.

Blank cards and the card with answers/descriptions on are supplied. Can be used as a whole lesson or as a revision lesson/activity. Lesson to go with doesn’t cover the environmental properties but works well as a whole lesson. Print page 1 as their starter activity. Then I got the students to cut up their own cards and match the keyword (on the wordsearch) to the decription and the picture on the cards. The pictures are really effective in helping them remember which property means what. Following that there are some quizes you can get them to do - questioning each other etc. Extension to include written descriptions of materials they have been studying linking with the material properties.

This is a whole lesson that will need you or your technician to build one of each of these circuits before the lesson to be used for the students to experiment with.

A full series of lessons around the topic suited to the current spec for exams or the new spec. You can collapse down some of the product analysis sessions for example and condense for a revision session. The sustainability dice is best made on a 8 sided packaging net or use a 6 sided dice net and get them to pick the 6 form the 8 available

A station activity where students travel around the room to answer questions and push their revision on different materials and manufacturing methods using questions from past AQA papers. Adapt page 2 and 9 to suit your lesson time and your rewards. Print slides 3-8 these are the station instructions to place around your room. Give each student a copy of the marksheet to complete during the lesson.

A set of lessons, with inbuilt quizzes, videos, kahoot links, animations - all to keep your students engaged. This would take a few lessons to deliver in full - or could be adapted for a revision session and completed at pace! Worksheet attached should be used alongside the lesson powerpoint.

The students loved this! Both the sound on the video and their competitive streak helped to add to the tension and engagement in the game. It helps to embed the learning of key words and terms for the exam as they need to describe the word to their team without actually saying it. Easy game to pick up quickly and lots of fun! I printed the board in two halves and stuck them together. You can use anything you want for counters. I also printed a pack of cards for each team in the game (There are 36 cards in a pack - each with 6 different DT Vocablulary words on - 216 terms in a pack of cards) - the chances of the same card coming up for the same colour each time was so low that it meant that they got a greater exposure to the vocabulary they need for the exam! You can add ‘all play’ option for your advanced teams too. Enjoy! :)

Designed as a revision lesson. Print slide 1, 9, 11 and 16 on A3 paper as student worksheets. Section 1 - are fast timed activities to try and get the students thinking of different methods of designing followed by discussion around empirical, intuitive and systematic design. Also framed around the initial designing question (Q1) on the exam which will ask students to design using different starting points. Section 2 - refresher on anthropometrics and ergonomics - great opportunity for whiteboard answers or even working together in pairs to try and product a ‘perfect’ answer. Followed by the example exam question. Section 3 - Product development - including copyright patents and an example exam question.