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Secondary Departmental Partnership How To Guides

Secondary Departmental Partnership How To Guides, These will be sent to you, upon receipt of payment, as part of your Secondary Departmental Partnership How to show the value of design and technology on the secondary curriculum How D&T uses and applies learning gained elsewhere on the curriculum and what a high-quality D&T education offers back to other curriculum areas How D&T provides context to prepare and engage the workforce of the future PowerPoint Slide deck to ‘sell’ the subject through...

Inspired by Industry Research

Help Shape the Future of KS3 D&T, We are delighted with the download figures for our Inspired by Industry contexts and by the verbal feedback received from so many schools and department leaders to date. We worked closely with business and industry to create these resources in order to help change some of the pedagogy at KS3 away from fixating on "finished products" and more on a way of helping students to think and work. We have secured funding from Enginuity, AtkinsRéalis and AssetTagz to engage Nottingham...

Joe - Design Manager at Black+Blum

Design Manager at Black+Blum, Joe, Watch Joe's video here Joe is a design manager at kitchenware design studio Black+Blum, specialising in designing and developing sustainable products, from the initial design phase right up to manufacture, working with suppliers and solving any issues. He enjoys the focus on user needs and his experience of studying D&T at school has helped in understanding the whole process. Play video.

John Donnelly

John Donnelly, John is based in the North West of England and has been a D&T teacher for nearly 25 years and Head of Department for over 20 years. John set up his own D&T consultancy company in 2015, DTResources Limited and can deliver CPD for all aspects of Design and Technology, DATA H&S training and machine inspection and maintenance. John is passionate about CAD (Fusion 360) and 3D Printing, and has helped many schools by delivering training on the use of...

Design Thinking Scenario Generator

Design Thinking Scenario Generator, Design thinking – scenario generator The design thinking scenario generator generates random words in three categories: User, Location and Theme to help students to develop design ideas for a product or system that addresses the needs of the user in the scenario (context). Clicking on the button in the Excel file (or pressing F9) will allow each of the categories to fill with a prompt, such as a bored child in a supermarket, or a visually impaired person navigating a park, etc. ...

TinkerCAD Introduction

TinkerCAD Introduction, Introduction to TinkercadPowerpoint This tutorial looks at the interface, tools and basic features of Tinkercad. It is an ideal introduction to the use of Tinkercad in the classroom which will provide the knowledge necessary to work with the other Tinkercad tutorials available from the Design and Technology Association

Focus Educational iPad, Android, PC and MAC resources

Focus Educational iPad, Android, PC and MAC resources, Focus Educational Online Design and Technology Resource pack Study anywhere on iPad, Android, Windows and MAC - Now with Focus on Smart and Modern Materials The well established and popular titles from Focus Educational Software are available via an annual subscription which gives whole-school access to their main Primary and Secondary products, including new titles: Smart, Modern and Composite Materials and a D&T video clips library. You will be able to access new titles when added and ensure that you have the latest version...

Sustainability in Industry

Sustainability in Industry: ECHO Brand Design, The Echo Brand Design team delivered this webinar to explore the importance of sustainability in industry. This includes discussing human behaviour, ever-changing consumer needs, and considering how these can be balanced without compromise to future generations. ECHO is a London-based innovation, brand strategy and design agency with a passion for innovation and designing sustainable futures for all. View the webinar here.

Heat transfer project

Heat transfer project, First published 2013 The Heat Transfer Project contains two activities for with cross-curricular links to Science asking Year 9 students to investigate materials that are most suitable for fast food packaging, and learn more about how a vacuum flask works. The project consists of two main activities: Hot Potatoes! A Science based activity where students make predictions, carry out an experiment, analyse results and make conclusions about which materials are most suitable for fast food packaging and apply this information to a design task....

How to breakdown a context and get started with 'Inspired by Industry'

How to breakdown a context and get started with 'Inspired by Industry', Watch our video below to find out how to break down a context from our ‘Inspired by Industry’ KS3 Contexts. ‘Inspired by Industry’ is a set of design contexts to address the ever-changing needs of the design and technology curriculum. Supporting students with an approach familiar at Key Stage 4, students have a level of autonomy, tackling a real-world design context provided by an industry partner of the Design & Technology Association. The...

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