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Washing Machine Project FTs and IEAs

Washing Machine Project, 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. Fold Up Airer - This Focused Task allows for the exploration of a range of elements including knowledge and exploration of mechanical systems such as linkages as well as potential CAD use, modelling and testing. Making Pegs - This Focused Task focuses on using CAD software to create pegs for...

Fussy FTs and IEAs

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...

Mamas & Papas FTs and IEAs

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. Collaborate - this Focused Task explores collaboration exercises using traditional methods (Post-its / white boards) and also digital online programs (Miro). Choke Tester Tube – get students to produce a CAD drawing of a child’s choke tester tube from a working drawing, or follow step by step on your 3D CAD...

The Excellence Award for Outstanding Industry Engagement (Industry Partner)

This award sponsored by OnePlanet recognises a business’s outstanding contribution to design and technology education through its ongoing relationship and activities with an individual school or group of schools. The successful business needs to demonstrate how their engagement with pupils has enriched the curriculum offer in design and technology for the engaged school(s). Evidence provided by a nominated Industry could include: Positive relationships with a school through schemes like Blueprint 1000, that have resulted in reciprocal relationships, involving pupils and...

Designing 130 Online PDF

Designing 130 Online PDF, Designing 130 Spring 2025 Designing magazine is a showcase for excellence in design across all phases of education, from primary schools to universities, and in commercial and industrial design. Its regular features include interviews with top designers in product design, architecture, engineering, fashion design, food, etc and includes examples of the best work taking place in schools in the UK and across the world. Designing is an inspiration to all budding designers, as well as being informative and challenging in the...

Mark Elwell

Mark Elwell, Introducing Mark Elwell, BA (Hons) with Qts, RDTHSC. Founder and senior consultant at Designed By ME, Mark has worked since 1995 in Design and Technology education and since 2011 as a Health and Safety Consultant. Qualifying from Brunel University with a degree in Design and Technology with Education, Mark has worked tirelessly as a teacher and leader at a series of 11-19 schools both in the public and independent sector. Starting out as a teacher Mark quickly moved his way up from...

Neil Epps

Neil Epps, I have been a Registered Design and Technology Health & Safety trainer, since my retirement from teaching, for eight years. I taught for thirty nine years in a number of state schools, being head of department in two schools and latterly member of the senior management and leadership teams.

David Morgan

David Morgan, Retired Design and Technology teacher with thirty eight years experience of teaching the subject. Ten years as head of department and twenty four as head of faculty. In addition to the full range of health and safety training, I can offer training in a range of silversmithing and jewellery techniques for use in schools.

Units not projects - A learning-first approach to D&T (1)

Units not projects - A learning-first approach to D&T, This 'Units not projects' course is aimed at teachers and subject leaders of design & technology to implement an effective curriculum structure that focuses on the learning needs of the students. This learning led approach can be carefully structured through strategically designed units of work rather than squeezing subject theory around a design and make project.The structure of this course has been planned with reflective and thought-provoking questions. We do advise that you complete this course at your own pace with...

Personalised Membership Logins

Personalised Membership Logins, Personalised Membership Logins Being a member of the Design and Technology Association, now offers members a tailored, personalised login page, directing you to information important to you. You will still be able to visit all pages on our new website, offering you an overall view of what is happening within other areas of D&T. When it is time to renew your membership you will receive an email with a personalised online renewal link. Please click on the link and renew online. Multiple logins...

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