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Curriculum and Lesson Planning KS3 Secondary Inspiring careers in D&T
KS3 jewellery‑design task using a designer‑maker case study to explore career paths, inspire individual design work and provide links to further creative career resources.

Age 11-14 years

This resource provides a design task that focuses on individual work to highlight career opportunities within jewellery design and making. The aim is to raise awareness of career opportunities for designer makers with an opportunity for students to explore a typical career path through experience of a particular designing activity. The resource and designing activity is build around a case study of a typical designer maker with an interesting background and career path. A PowerPoint presentation shows her work together with an analysis of the positives and negatives of this path. There are inspirational examples to help students design their own jewellery and prompts to encourage further design thinking.

This also includes information about careers and links to a number of websites and further useful resources.

STEM Careers is a series of resources whose aim is to raise awareness of the wide range of careers that Design and Technology can lead to within a creative Design and Technology curriculum context.