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Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. CAD - learn how to use a canvas in 3D CAD programs (PTC Onshape used as an example) to design an ergonomic controller. CAM - this will cover how to use a 3D printer to output the design of your controller, featuring examples from Scalextric. Digital sketching - using an iPad...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks - Coming Soon FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class-making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Investigative Evaluative Activities - Coming Soon IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such as product disassembly, reflection and prediction and discussions and explorations regarding sustainability. Curriculum units Click on the following bullets...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class-making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Living Hinges - This FT explores living hinges, a technique for creating flexible joints in rigid materials like wood and plastic. It also covers kerfing, steam bending, and laminating. Investigative Evaluative Activities - Coming Soon IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks - Coming Soon FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class-making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Investigative Evaluative Activities IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such as product disassembly, reflection and prediction and discussions and explorations regarding sustainability. Packaging Research - this IEA will delve into alternative packaging...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class-making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. CAD Screw threads - this FT will go into how to make a screw thread in CAD and 3D print them. Investigative Evaluative Activities - Coming Soon IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks - Coming Soon FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class-making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Investigative Evaluative Activities - Coming Soon IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such as product disassembly, reflection and prediction and discussions and explorations regarding sustainability. Curriculum units Click on the following bullets...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks - Coming Soon FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class-making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Investigative Evaluative Activities IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such as product disassembly, reflection and prediction and discussions and explorations regarding sustainability. Natural Disasters - This IEA explores natural and man-made disasters, their...
Design researcher & team leader, Prof. Rebecca Earley, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now. Becky is a design researcher and award-winning research team leader at the University of the Arts London. She is based at Chelsea College of Arts where she is Co-Director of Centre for Circular Design (CCD). In October 2021 she co-founded World Circular Textiles Day 2050 with a team of like-minded collaborators who all want to create clear roadmaps for circular textiles, by drawing together current academic and...
Member only Tasks and Activities, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. CAD and 3D Printing - this Focused Task for students is to research and design their own teether, drawing inspiration from simple, colorful shapes, food, or animal motifs, to help alleviate the pain of teething toddlers. 3D Sketching - this Focused Task will cover creating a simple teething ring in Tinkercad for...
From classroom to community: How design and technology inspired Algeria’s first skate shop, When LSBU graduate Muhammed Amin Boussetou first visited Algeria, he was struck by the fact that the country, the largest in Africa by land size, had no skate shops at all. That realisation later became the inspiration for DZ Skateboards, Algeria’s first ever skate shop. The idea grew while Muhammed was studying product design at university. At the same time, Algeria opened its first skate park, which gave him the confidence to launch the business. With family roots in Algeria, the project held personal...
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