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Resourceful Mind

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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.

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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 Ferrous and Non Ferrous Metals Design and Technology
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Introduction to Ferrous and Non Ferrous Metals Design and Technology

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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
Design and Technology WJEC Airbus: looking at the work of other designers
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Design and Technology WJEC Airbus: looking at the work of other designers

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A lesson I gave to highlight the work of Airbus Covers the requirements of the WJEC Design and Technology specification 2017. Also could be used to talk about material properties and uses. Standard lesson Starter Lesson objectives Video link Mini Review Narrative slides about the Airbus A380 scaffolding for final activity Think Pair share (material properties and uses) Final task: Create an infographic on the Airbus Exit card
Food and Nutrition: Calculating nutrition in food ingredients and a recipe. Macro and Micro nutrient
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Food and Nutrition: Calculating nutrition in food ingredients and a recipe. Macro and Micro nutrient

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A lesson on calculating the total macro and micro nutrients provided by food ingredients and in a recipe. This lesson provides A starter on previous learning (simple and complex carbohydrates) Learning objectives for lesson (All Most Some/ Expect Develop Stretch) A think pair share (types of macro and micro nutrients) Mini review activity (What are micro macro neither?) Scaffolding (Calculating the nutrients in a recipe for an ingredient) Task (Calculating the nutrients in a recipe for an ingredient) Stretch Task (Calculating the total nutrients in a recipe) Exit Card (Types of macro and micro nutrients) Resources for all the nutrition of ingredients provided by spaghetti bolognese
Christmas Fun Challenge Quiz 2017
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Christmas Fun Challenge Quiz 2017

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Here is a fun game quiz you can play with a class divided into 2 teams. There are 8 rounds, 5 questions per round. 1: Picture reveal (Who's hiding behind the tree) 2: Reindeer Race (Pick a reindeer to win the race) 3: Christmas quiz (Christmas questions) 4: Ding Dong Dingbats (What is the carol from the picture) 5: Pixelated picture reveal (What is the city?) 6: Whats the Punchline (The worst cracker jokes) 7: Whats in the present (Crack the code) 8: Elf on the shelf (Rhyming names) See the youtube video for a snipit of each round Link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvIaVsjnko Suitable for ages 8 - 16
Smart Materials Design and Technology
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Smart Materials Design and Technology

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Introduction to smart materials when you just don’t have enough time or resources to give everyone a smart material to experiment with. Good revision lesson too. Includes: Video link introduction Key Vocubulary Smart Material animations Mini Review Scaffolding Tasks Example GCSE Questions Exit Card.
Food and Nutrition Complex Carbohydrates
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Food and Nutrition Complex Carbohydrates

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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
Food and Nutrition - Dietary lifestyle choices
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Food and Nutrition - Dietary lifestyle choices

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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
Food Technology - Designing Cupcakes
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Food Technology - Designing Cupcakes

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Design and make task Designing cupcakes (Not healthy eating but a good one for designing and thinking about adding fruit and making things healthier) Pupils really engage with this activity. Fun starter Lesson objectives - focusing on the design outcome Peer assessment of modeled outcomes Specification Main task Exit card Nutritional Resources
Globalisation
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Globalisation

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Lesson on globalisation I made for WJEC Design and Technology but could be used for business studies or Geography. Includes Starter Introduction Discussion Video link 60 word summary Thought provoking images Mini Review Exit Card
Summer Holidays end of year assembly + update
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Summer Holidays end of year assembly + update

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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