A rendering activity to explore how to describe tone and texture, in this case softwood. Students can complete the short, three stage exercise to make the robot toy blank look like timber. Its useful for the less confident/able. I built the robot toy but he was stolen before he could be included here. A dodgy flat mate stole him NOT students...they are far more trustworthy!

A resource I made to support an assignment where students designed and built a wind powered garden decoration. Includes prompts to research and analyse useful research material, to model and experiment ideas, and plan the construction of a chosen idea.

Students match the plastic/polymer product to its relevant material and forming process. Includes questions to answer about thermosets and thermoplastics.

Develop students ability to add tone, texture and colour using these eleven exercises.

A guide booklet for year nine or ten describing frame and box construction techniques. The resource offers a list of prompts to help develop and plan a storage idea in timber.

Students are introduced to basic graphic skills, typography, levers linkages and pop up mechanisms. They are prompted to design a greeting card or gift using the concepts they have experienced. The card modelling techniques shown allow for a greater level of differentiation of outcome. Students will also use D.T.P and C.A.D as appropriate

Unit three revision booklet with heavy emphasis on design movements from the Victorians to the digital age. Booklet contains all other unit three requirements and ends with three product analysis and evaluation exercises.

Combined graphics and Product analysis exercises. free hand drawing exercises combined with Analysys of design groups Allessi and Koziol. Students are then prompted to re-design an existing product using the influence of the products they have analysed together with the graphic skills developed during the previous exercises.

Construct a range of basic timber jointing methods using dimensioned diagrams. Students are then prompted to describe/record how they made each as part of research and preparation for their major coursework component. . Its amazing that only three basic techniques are needed to produce some fairly sohisticated and demanding outcomes for project work.I havnt finished this booklet but you are welcome to use it. It works well for lower ability/ poorly motivate students as a supplement to arrid 'folder work'. Enjoy!

Information slides about structures and forces with a comprehension task at the end.

A set of tasks and activities for a year nine group to develop free hand drawing techniques. It takes students through drawing with basic geometric forms to 'crating&'. It contains a list of timed activities and an extension task.

Coursework support booklet for A2 Product Design (UNIT4). Contains coursework components and assessment criteria. Also included are some examples for ideas and development of a choen idea.

Perspective work sheets made especially for lower ability students. The Powerpoint slides take them through the concepts stage by stage. The work can be consolidated by completing an identical workbook by adding missing details.

An introduction to corporate identity, card modelling, graphic skills and D.T.P

Visual information I produced to describe a range of methods for generating movement for a mechanical toy. Also included are a range of possible construction techniques and ideas for possible outcomes.

Presentation and task sheet for year ten Product Design.

A booklet designed to support students progress within the AQA Product design syllabus (design and make) . This example is for a jewellery design assignment but can be modified.

study the text and match a range a range of plastic products to the correct plastic/polymer and forming process. Students complete a given grid with spaces to place the correct information and answers. This is for middle to lower abilities.

Students explore motion, levers, linkages and cams as a supporting activity to making a timber robot toy. They can then progress to designing their own mechanical toy using an eccentric cam or linkage.

Design task using Adobe Photoshop. Pre drawn images available for less able/confident. A task designed to develop expertise in the basic functions such as layers, colours, file types/saving, etc.