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Can biology help us to design more sustainable textiles?, Dr Veronika Kapsali from University of the Arts London is conducting research on Bio-inspired textiles (BIT) is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project focused on looking to nature to teach us how to make better design decisions with the resources available to us. The BIT team are creating resources that translate and apply the knowledge found in nature to enable designers to create textiles that combat resource efficiency, longevity, and recovery. View the webinar here....
Projects on a Page: Late Key Stage 2 Pack of Ten Planners, Two new planners for 2023 Year 3-6 The Key Practitioners- focuses on a selection of recommended key individuals from across the design and technology specialisms. This is focused for KS2 but can be delivered at any time across those year groups. The planner gives your ideas for how you can incorporate key individuals into your planning and units of work as well as giving...
What size should D&T rooms be and what space is required around individual machinery and equipment?, Safe working practice in D&T requires sufficient overall space so that students can move safely around the furniture, equipment and machinery that is required today in a modern D&T workshop or studio. The key information required in relation to this question is contained in 2 documents: the DfE Building Bulletin 81 and BS 4163:2021 ‘Health and safety for design and technology in educational and similar establishments –...
Felicity Milton, Felicity is the Global Senior Director of Team Sport TECH at adidas. She is a native 'intrapreneur' with a background in Mechanical Engineering (MEng – Durham University) and coming up to two decades of building, scaling, and failing new end-to-end business models - from sports technologies, 3D apparel and footwear creation, Start-Up incubators, to data driven, made to order customization platforms for ‘lot size one’ robotic manufacture. Design and Technology alongside sport has been the red thread running through her career
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. Rock, Paper, Scissors Micro:bit - this FT will cover how students can make their own ‘rock, paper, scissors’ game that may form the start of a game design opportunity. 5-minute modelling - This unit introduces the Soma cube puzzle using Tinkercad, teaching basic functions like move, duplicate,
Vice Dean for Social Responsibility, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Lynne Bianchi, In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by Dr Lynne Bianchi. Lynne is Vice Dean for Social Responsibility, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility, Director of the Science & Engineering Education Research and Innovation Hub & Senior Lecturer at Manchester University. A staunch advocate of STEM and vocational education, we track Lynne's journey from her school days, which did not pass without challenge, to her current role at Manchester University and how this came to...
Peter Upton, Pete graduated from Shoreditch College (Brunel University) in 1982 Bed (Hons) and has taught Design and Technology in a variety of educational settings in Manchester, London, Spain and Cheshire. Over 40 years’ experience of using workshop machinery and classroom management skills to maximise the safety and learning of his students, ensures his courses are underpinned by first-hand experience. Pete is a Registered D&T Health & Safety Consultant and offers a range of DATA courses both Nationally and...
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...
Else FTs and IEAs, 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. ...
JCB FTs and IEAs, 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 Model a Grabber - in this FT we will follow the process of modelling a grabber arm which could be used with the Syringe Grabber unit to make a system for picking up and moving objects. Investigative Evaluative Activities - Coming Soon IEAs are where...
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