Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Lesson for Food Technology
1-3 lessons on designing a smoothie
Starer
Video Links
Mini plenary anatomy of a smoothie
Differentiated support sheets
Design task with WILF
Exit Card
Example assignment for unit 3 Btec Engineering: Health and safety in engineering
Includes all the covering sheets and feedback along with a completed example assignment.
Assignments have been praised by external verification as good examples with the correct feedback and paper work carried out.
A revision sheet that covers unit 2 of the WJEC food and nutrition Specification for the principles of nutrition
Macro and Micronutrients
RDA
Amino Acids
Good Fat V Bad Fat
Carbohydrates
Nutrition Labeling
A 4 hour learning activity/project that encourages independent learning to meet set outcomes.
This activity was developed as a short project based learning activity to compliment the work that the pupils do in school.
There are 3 milestones for the pupils to complete using the resources provided to answer a driving question.
Driving Question
How can we convince people to use eco-friendly products and reduce the impact they have on the planet?
Context
As a consumer you buy and throw away lots of products such as phones, pens, packaging. These products not only use lots of our resources but end up in landfills and cause pollution. We should all look to reduce our impact on the environment but as designers we should also consider how products impact the environment and look for ways to reduce that impact. Complete the milestones above to investigate the impact and how it can be reduced.
In the resource you will find an overview sheet and 4 suitable resource sheets to help pupils complete the desired outcomes.
This is a 10 hour project I created for pupils who are isolating or working from home during the Covid pandemic.
The premis of the project is to consider how design can have a positive impact on others. Pupils are expected to complete the project through independent learning were teacher support is not available.
In this project pupils will consider how they can design a product for someone with arthritis. They will look at existing products, carry out some research, create designs on paper and through tinkercad. They will model their designs using home made playdough and create a final pitch.
The project is designed so that their is some guidance on what the pupils need to learn or be able to achieve, links to internet resources to help them complete tasks and upload or provide evidance.
I use Google classroom to provide pupils with their own copy but you may want to adapt if pupils require paper copies.
A 4 hour learning activity/project that encourages independent learning to meet set outcomes.
This activity was developed as a short project based learning activity to compliment the work that the pupils do in school.
There are 5 milestones for the pupils to complete using the resources provided to answer a driving question.
Driving Question
When making a product for someone how do you know which materials are the most suitable, which size of material to order and what the cost will be? How can you ensure you are not left out of pocket after charging the customer?
In the resource you will find an overview sheet and 5 suitable resource sheets to help pupils complete the desired outcomes.
Description of Project
Whether you are a builder, carpenter, roofer, painter you will always need to buy the materials you need to make a product. Sometimes you are making a product to sell or providing a service and you will not want to be out of pocket.
Whenever you plan to make a product at home or in work you will need to know how much material you will need to make the product. If you order too little or the wrong size you will not be able to make the product. If you order too much you will be left with waste and will end up costing you more.
Before you start to make, you should plan out the exact size and quantity of a material you need and which stock form you need to order to get the shapes you need. You should then budget your product to make sure you can afford to make it or too calculate the cost of the product to enable you to make a profit
Wooden Table
You have been approached by a customer to make this simple coffee table and has given you a budget of £100. Before you make it you will need to work out which material would be the most suitable, how much material you need, what stock form you need to order.
Then you will have to calculate how much it will cost to make to make sure it is profitable for you to make it within the budget. Man does not work for free!
Includes Updated power point 2020
This lesson follows on from my Vitamins lesson. Pupils should use the investigation technique to scan and skim information to find facts form the fact sheets on minerals provided. There is a short video on minerals a show me game and plenary. Also a piece of homework for them to produce their own fact sheet on water.
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Covering activities, hazards, injuries and precautions when selecting and using PPE
Pair tasks
Mini Review
Main Task
Exit Question
Flipped Learning Homework
Meets the requirements for Unit 3 Learning Aims B or Health and safety in WJEC RM Spec
Unit 1 Engineering example test. 19 questions in the on screen format to familiarise pupils with the style of questions they will get from 1 mark to 8 marks. All questions include sample answers and key buts of linked knowledge that they should know.
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B Powdered metallurgy
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Revision resource or cover lesson for the 5 stages of risk assessments and why they are needed.
Example of risk assessment and activities to revise learning
Revision lesson resources focusing on the designers Phillipe Stark and Bethan Gray
Video Links
Description of designers
Questions about Designers
Catchphrase style mini reviews
Extended writing task
Exit Card
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Shearing
A power point presentation with starter activity, notes, video links, tasks and plenary that cover this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Scales of Production
A power point presentation with starter activity, notes, video links, tasks and plenary that cover this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A PCB SMT Manufacture
A power point presentation with starter activity, notes, video links, tasks and plenary that cover this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Milling
A power point presentation with starter activity, notes, video links, tasks and plenary that cover this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Blended wing bodies
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Bionics
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
One of lesson explaining the effects of emerging technology.
The lesson helps students identify the positive and negative effects and the prepares them for GCSE exam questions.
The lesson contains exam style questions and explains how to access the low and high marks.
Contains
Starter
Main lesson
2 Tasks
Exam question mark breakdown
6 exam questions from 1 - 6 marks
Exit card
Follows on from emerging technology lesson on technology push, market pull and consumer choice.