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.
Introduction to plastics
What are they why we use them
What are their properties
Design a reuseable plastic product
kept it simple for year 7’s being taught by a non specialist. Avoided all the plastic term names like polyethylene etc and tried to make it engaging.
You could add plastic names to stretch higher ability pupils
Useful for that quick lesson you just don’t have the time to create
An assembly I gave on resourcefulness following on from my previous assembly on resilience.
The assembly lasted 20 minutes.
Videos, thought provokers, thinking time and key learning points.
Follow on lesson from simple carbohydrates
to explain complex carbohydrates (Polysaccharides) and their role in your diet
Cellulose Fibre
Starch
Glycogen
Also outlines diabetes and hypoglycaemic and foods rich in fibre
Mini reviews
Scaffolding Tasks
Exit Card
Btec Engineering Learning Aim A Welding
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Food and nutrition lesson on lifestyle choices and diet.
Covers individuals with specific lifestyle needs to include
vegetarians: lacto-ovo, lacto, vegan, and those with
religious beliefs that affect choice of diet to include
Hindu, Muslim, Jewish
Lesson contains
Starter
Learning objectives
Card sort
Summary of 60
Mini review
GCSE questions
Exit card
resources
A lesson to guide students on how to answer the exam question on processes and the suitabililty of material used in the process to manufacture the product.
Processes
Materials
Properties
Example questions
last minute cover lesson activity to design a healthy and nutritious flapjack
Includes success criteria
Simle instructions
Information o help them fulfill the success criteria
Example assignment for unit 3 assignment Btec engineering health and safety in engineering.
The assignment includes all feedback and Btec sheets that should accompany it.
Assignment were praised by external moderator as good examples.
Design and Technology or Business Studies
Covering the new WJEC spec for Technology Push, Market Pull, Consumer Choice and life cycle of a product.
Starter
Group activity (hot seating) present findings to class
60 second summary task
Group discussion
Life cyle of product graph
Reverse test
Exit card
All you need for a great lessons
Wellbeing and Ethos
discuss your plans for the school holiday
Reminding pupils to not miss opportunities
Fall into the Summer holiday rut
Top 10 summer holiday ruts
Best things to do with your summer
Some of the things to do are for Wales and might need to change for your local area
I would include pictures of you enjoying summer holidays as a child and now
I have added an updated version into the package
Here is one of the powerpoints I made for our house competitions. Players can select from one of the classic children’s games and gain points by playing the game. The powerpoint is fully automated and interactive, There are various outcomes so if they do it once they could do it again for a different outcome. You can add slides and change the transition/links if you desire to make it easier or hard.
Interactive games
Operation
Buckaroo
Pop up Pirate
Jenga
Kerplunk
Guess Who
and a guess the board game quiz thrown in!
This took a couple of hours to create so if you use it and find it useful please review.
Thanks
This lesson follows on from the revision of a designer lesson in my resources. The reasonong behind the lesson is to reiterate the work of the designer but to also focus on some sketching skills and design thinking. There are 3 tasks.
1 Practicing sketching - Straight lines, Curves, Ellipses, Perspective, Coverging lines
2. Practicing shading and contering
(if you are not great at product design then I suggest you use this video from you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UqGtsjKiU )
3. Design a clock using sketching skills in the style of Phillipe Stark
There are some visual images that you can use for inspiration as well.
Not my greatest resource but could come in handy
I have compiled a practice exam with answers to aid students in preparing for the WJEC product design and engineering exam. The questions are centered on the fundamental principles and concepts specified in the curriculum. The exam includes questions from the SAMs and previous papers, and I have created an editable document that can be printed and distributed to students.
Providing past papers and mock exams can help students to familiarize themselves with the format and style of the exam, as well as identify areas where they may need further study or practice. Encouraging students to practice with past papers and mock exams can also help to build their confidence and reduce anxiety around the exam.