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.
3 revision activities for GCSE product design covering Social and economic impact in product design, Smart Materials and standards and legislation.
Simple text and easy to hard questions to help them prepare for the exam. Could be printed off and left for cover work as well.
I created this lesson for a non specialist to cover a DT lesson, can be used as a standalone or over a couple of lessons.
Lesson plan: Draw a living area using a grid and symbols:
Objective: Students will plan and draw a living area layout using a grid system and symbols to represent furniture and objects.
Materials Needed
Grid paper or drawing paper (a pre-drawn grid is available in slides will need to br printed out A3)
Pencils, erasers, rulers
Example floor plan diagrams for reference
Lesson Steps
Introduction (10 minutes)
Introduce the concept of floor planning and how architects and designers use grids and symbols to plan living spaces.
Show examples of floor plans and discuss
Symbols(10 minutes)
Introduce common symbols used in floor plans to represent furniture (e.g., beds, sofas, tables), doors, windows, and other objects (e.g., TV, plants).
Mini review
Grid Basics (10 minutes)
Explain the grid system and how each square on the grid represents a specific measurement (e.g., 1 square = 10cm).
Demonstrate how to measure and mark the grid using rulers and pencils.
Planning Phase (15 minutes)
Assign students to plan their living area layout on the grid paper.
Encourage them to consider scale, proportions, and functionality (e.g., placement of furniture for traffic flow).
Drawing Phase (20 minutes)
Once planning is complete, instruct students to start drawing their floor plan using symbols for furniture and objects.
Emphasize neatness, accuracy in scale, and clear labeling of symbols.
Extension activities
Review and Discussion (10 minutes):
Have students display their floor plans and discuss their design choices with classmates.
Encourage peer feedback on layout effectiveness and creativity.
Reflection (5 minutes):
Ask students to reflect on the challenges faced during the activity and what they learned about floor planning and design principles.
Challenge advanced students to incorporate additional elements such as color codes for different areas (e.g., living room, kitchen).
Revision lesson to cover the surface finishes and treatments that are available to enhance functional and aesthetic qualities in materials.
Mini reviews
Video resources
Past paper questions and knowledge check tasks
Handouts
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B Smart Materials
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for 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
An assembly focusing on digital dependency and how to develop a ‘Healthy Mind’ through the healthy mind platter.
Assembly lasts about 15 - 20 minutes including a link to optional video that outlines students being overwhelmed because of technology.
to ferrous and non ferrous metals helping pupils understand the terms ferrous and non ferrous.
Lesson explains pure metals and alloys, the effect of moisture on ferrous and non ferrous metals and why different metals are used for similar products.
Lesson includes
Starter
Explination of ferrous and non ferrous
2 Mini reviews
Video
3 scaffolding tasks
Exit card
Revision sheet and Bank sheet to revise topic: The impact of new and emerging technologies.
Covers
Market Pull V Technology Push
Product Life Cycle
Global production and its effects on culture and people.
Legislation
Consumer rights
Sustainability
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.
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.
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