What does a product designer do? How does craft production compare to product/industrial design? Investigate and study the factors for sucessful product design and analysis.

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.

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.

Information slides describing the physical and mechanical properties of materials together with a description of shaping and forming processes. Comprehension exercises/questions to consolidate learning

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

Add colour, tone, and texture to a pre printed image. Good for lower ability students or an introduction to rendering

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!