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Smart Crumb Starter Pack, A Smart Crumb is a new way of connecting intelligent devices to the Crumble Controller, using only one output. You can even chain multiple different Smart Crumbs to the same output! There are dedicated blocks to control the Smart Crumbs, under the new ‘Smart’ category in the software. This pack contains all three Smart Crumbs: Digits, Pitch and Temperature. Output values between -999 and 9999, generate notes and measure temperature in °C. They can be used to make heat controlled alarms, carnival games, digital songs and more. Your imagination...
Hand-made switches helpsheet, Making hand-made switches is a good way of helping children understand how they work and which would be appropriate for a particular user and purpose in a product. For example, some lights may need to stay on, others to work only when held.These switches can be put together using: scissors, automatic wire strippers and ruler. Use a card drill or hole punch to make holes in card. Materials can include card, corrugated plastic sheet, card wheels, paper clips, paper fasteners, click rivets, aluminium foil or self-adhesive copper strip. Make the parts from recycled...
Packaging – with links to Maths, Packaging – with links to MathsAge 7-9 yearsFirst published 2009 In this unit Year 3/4 children learn how containers are designed for specific purposes. They consider how the shape of the container will meet the needs of the product, which it will hold. Through it they will develop mathematical knowledge, skills and understanding when they draw and make nets of 3D shapes. They will develop their design skills when considering the shape of the container for practical and aesthetic reasons, and develop ideas by making initial designs in paper...
Let's Look at Hats, Let’s Look at Hats EYFSAges 3-5 years This resource focuses on children investigating and evaluating hats. It includes two PowerPoint presentations, one with examples of different hats and questions to ask about who uses these hats and which are the children’s favourites, and one looking at different ways of joining fabrics using a variety of methods. Practitioners should use these as starting points and adapt the resource to include products that would engage children, including real hats and fabric examples. The resource also includes ten...
Night lights (links to Literacy) YR3, 7-9 years First published 2010 In this unit of work children design a battery-powered night light which incorporates a fully working circuit plus a choice of switch. The children create a night light based upon their own design, incorporating both their practical skills and creative flair, whilst demonstrating and challenging their technological ability, linked to the science theme of electricity. The project links with literacy work focusing on instructional texts, and also available for download are a Creative Curriculum planning poster and an article on D&T
Siobhan O'Mahony, I am a registered Public Health Nutritionist, with over 10 years’ experience working with the Health and Wellbeing Service at Leeds City Council. We provide practical and classroom based training specialising in cooking, nutrition and food skills. The training is centrally run and can also be delivered in your school to your full team of staff. The training includes theory, lesson planning, planning schemes of work, assessment, hands-on cookery, knife skills and nutrition. Cooking in the curriculum – full day training sessions Cooking in the curriculum in-school, full staff...
Tomorrow is theirs to build - Samsung Solve for Tomorrow invites students to innovate, Design and technology teachers across the UK and Ireland have a new opportunity to inspire the next generation of innovators. Samsung Solve for Tomorrow is a free, curriculum-linked programme and national competition for 11 – 18 year-olds in secondary schools and colleges, designed to equip students with essential skills while tackling real-world problems. Inspire creativity and problem-solving in your classroom Through ready-to-use teaching resources, teachers can support students in developing creative thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving skills....
Building Services Engineering, Building Services EngineeringAges 11-14First released 2018 These free resources have been developed with the support of CIBSE Patrons at the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, to help students understand roles and career paths into the industry. For many people, the services inside buildings – heat, power, ventilation, security and environmental systems – are invisible. Young people are often unaware of how exciting and rewarding building services engineering careers can be, and what an impact BSE design decisions have on our planet. These resources include video case studies of five of...
Chairs for Three Bears, Chairs for Three Bears (Ages 3–5) Updated for the 2014 EYFS framework, this resource uses the story of the Three Bears to inspire activities in design, making, maths, language, and more. Includes four PowerPoints, vocabulary, and guidance for creative, practical learning.
Sandwich Snacks, Sandwich SnacksAge 7-9 yearsFully updated 2020 With this resource children experience basic food preparation techniques and ways of combining ingredients to create simple food products for a particular purpose. It may be adapted by using an alternative context for the children’s designing and making assignment for example: snacks or pizza toppings. As well as helping children to make choices in designing and making a sandwich for a particular purpose, and an awareness of which foods are healthy, there is an emphasis on improving literacy skills amongst children with mild or severe learning...
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