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Let's Look at Vehicles, Let’s Look at Vehicles EYFSAges 3-5 years These resources encourage younger children to take a closer look at wheels and wheeled vehicles. It includes two PowerPoint presentations in which children look at pictures of a range of wheels with discussion prompts, and another inviting them to design a vehicle for an alien of their choice, including stages of investigating, designing, making, finishing and evaluating. There is an accompanying vocabulary list and lesson planning for four lessons. NB: The resource pre-dates the 2012 changes to the EYFS...
Jim Stewart, Jim studied and practiced as a designer and craftsman before training as a teacher, where he retired from leading the Technology Faculty in a secondary school in 2022, having just successfully lead the curriculum area through the new Ofsted framework. In his time within secondary, further and university education, Jim has had varied experiences. These include leading on skills transfers within Knowledge Transfer Partnerships between education and industry, writing on design history, to having taught craft and manufacture to featured leading designers now appearing in Designing. He has spent many years...
Upcycling, First published 2012 This resource is a great way of reusing old products that would normally be thrown away and to raise students’ awareness of upcycling waste products in an innovative and enterprising way. It considers the themes of sustainability and enterprise – designing, making and marketing desirable, quality products from recycled materials. Most children at some point have made a puppet out of an old sock or a rocket or car out of an old kitchen roll, plastic milk bottle etc. The aim of this project is to take that concept to a level...
Membership for Multi Academy Trusts, Are the schools in your Trust deliver D&T with different levels of confidence? Do you want to ensure all your schools are fully equipped to achieve excellent results where it matters? Is your key stages aligned and delivering D&T, aligned to real world challenges, replicating how many organisations design, prototype and test? By joining us, you’ll provide your schools with invaluable resources and support to deliver exceptional and inspiring Design and Technology education to both primary and secondary pupils. Why Join Us? At...
Alarming vehicles YR 4/5/6, Years 4, 5 & 6Age 8-11First published 2007; fully revised 2019 This unit of work encourages children to develop their understanding of electrical systems through exploring ways of protecting vehicles using electrical alarms. It contains a PowerPoint presentation, teacher notes and pupil worksheets. The unit can be taught in Year 4 following from Project on a Page Simple Circuits and Switches and Simple Programming and Control, but to maximise the learning it could be delivered during Years 5/6, thus enabling the use of more complicated parallel circuits and a fuller range...
Make the World... More sustainable, Sustainable design is fast becoming a matter of global corporate citizenship. More consumers are choosing products based on their environmental impact, forcing manufacturers to reconsider how they develop and market products. Finding solutions to the problems people have in real world situations, that are designed with sustainability in mind, are key to students' development of ideas when preparing for their GCSEs and A Levels. This set of free resources, sponsored by the ERA Foundation, includes five short videos and a presentation invites students who are preparing
Secondary Membership Options, Secondary membership packages offer support and guidance, endless teaching resources for individuals and whole departments. Choose the package that suits you, receive a range of benefits and CPD that will help you deliver design and technology in line with the National Curriculum., Secondary Membership Options
Ensuring the Future of Design and Technology Education: An Urgent Call to Action, We were recently fortunate to be involved in an article that featured the plight of design and technology education in The Observer. Following this was the official launch of a significant new report, “A Blueprint for Renewal of Design and Technology Education,” compiled with a range of colleagues over the last twelve months and released in close collaboration with the Design Council at Havas in King’s Cross. The report highlighted some alarming statistics: GCSE entries in design and technology...
Blueprint 1000®, The initiative engages industry partners, who are keen to actively connect with schools and play a major part in offering high quality teacher CPD and ongoing real-world support, for teachers and pupils. The aim, in connecting industry with education, is to help contextualise and further your subject-knowledge to ensure lessons are relevant and up-to-date for your students as they leave education and enter the workplace. Ultimately, we will be working with teachers, pupils and industry to build an inspiring, innovative and proficient workforce by supporting design and technology education in...
Designed for Life - Live at Simon Langton Boys School, Kent (Part 1), In this episode, we continue exploring the journey of school design and technology leaders and departments as we visit and talk with staff, students, and parents at the Simon Langton Boys Grammar School in Canterbury, Kent. 🎧 Listen here. Before anyone decides this is a story of overprivileged students enjoying an experience created by money and connections, please know this is not the case. This department has been carefully crafted from the ground up with a limited budget and now has over...
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