Full lesson resource includes full PowerPoint presentation. 1) Students to analyse the power of branding and it’s effect on different consumer groups. 2) Students to evaluate how products are marketed using a variety of techniques, including leaflets, flyers, point of sale, packaging and digital media.

Initial Design Ideas lesson to design T-shirt. Aims and Objectives: To design your initial design ideas for your T-shirt based on your target audience. To evaluate your four initial design ideas and use the outcomes to develop your final design ides for your T-shirt.

Learning objective: 1) Students to investigate the terms market pull and technology push. 2) Students to evaluate how market pull and technology pull influences the development of products.

Learning objective: 1) Students to identify common modelling materials. 2) Students to investigate how models have been used to develop commercial products. 3) Students to formulate how to cut, shape and join common modelling materials.

Learning Objectives: Students to differentiate and be able to select the correct tools when removing waste material during the manufacture of products. Students to be able to distinguish the tools’ uses, advantages and disadvantages.

Learning objective: 1) Students to investigate the source of a range of materials, how they are processed for use and how they can be reused, recycled or disposed of. 2) Students to evaluate the environmental consequences of the use of these materials.

Learning Objectives: For students to be able to differentiate and be able to select the correct tools and equipment when marking out and measuring. Students to be able to distinguish the tools’ uses, advantages and disadvantages.

Full lesson resource includes full PowerPoint presentation. Students to investigate the functions of packaging: protection, informing, containing, transportation, preservation, and display.

Edexcel A Level Design Technology - Product Design

Aims: Analyse and evaluate existing products, including those from professional designers Objectives: You must be able to analyse an existing product. You must be able to evaluate an existing product. You must be able apply product analysis skills to products from professional designers like James Dyson or Jonathan Ive.

M2: Explain the cost benefits of moving from low-technology manual manufacturing to high-technology automated manufacturing.

The Big Picture: After students have completed their T-shirt design and evaluated their designs. They are now going to develop their chosen design idea into a final finished T-shirt idea. Aims & Objectives: To evaluate your four initial design ideas and use the outcomes to develop your final design ideas for your T-shirt.

Learning objective: 1) Students to explain the casting process of pewter casting and aluminium casting. 2) Students to evaluate the casting process of pewter casting and aluminium casting.

To investigate the importance of ergonomics is in the designing of products. To design a toothbrush for an elderly person taking into account ergonomics

Presentation 1 - To demonstrate an understanding of the factors influencing the choice of material in a design Presentation 2 - To evaluate the properties of materials and how it influences material selection

Learning Objective: 1) Students to investigate the four types of motion. 2) Students to evaluate and have knowledge of several mechanical components. 3) Students to be able to link mechanical components together to form mechanical systems

Students to evaluate how built-in obsolescence in new products has led for a ‘throwaway’ culture. Students to investigate offshore manufacture of mass-produced products in developing countries by multinational companies. Students to investigate how tolerance of different cultures to avoid offence influences the designing and manufacturing of products. Resources include full detailed lesson, with videos and engaging activities.

Full lesson resource includes full PowerPoint presentation, lesson plan and activity sheet. Aims and objectives: 1) Students to evaluate existing packaging graphics used in chocolate boxes. 2) Students to create packaging graphics for a chocolate box.

Learning Objectives: 1) Students to evaluate several electrical components. 2) Students to create and solder electrical components together to form a simple circuit.

Key Stage 3 Product Design - Design Development - 3rd Angle Orthographic Drawing Using 3D drawing skills such as Orthographic Projection, students will create and develop initial ideas. Students evaluates each other’s drawings Students to apply the 3D skills learnt in lesson to their own initial ideas for the light project.