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Cultural Cushions, Cultural Cushions Year 8This resource has been kindly provided by Emma Gregory of Manningtree High School, in association with her article in D&T Practice 2.2015. It includes a scheme of work and two PowerPoint presentations. It comprises 12-16 one-hour lessons to design and make a culturally inspired cushion suitable to be mass produced.
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. Designing Nets - this Focused Task explores creating a net for a takeaway style recipe box. Digital Design with AI - this Focused Task looks at how to design a simple net for a takeaway style recipe box. Investigative Evaluative Activities IEAs are where students learn from...
Curriculum Links, These downloadable member-only units cover a range of additional units suitable within D&T. These units will be regularly developed and added to, creating a broad suite of resources to use in the classroom. 6 R's (Sc) - this unit introduces the 6Rs of sustainability: Reduce, Rethink, Refuse, Recycle, Reuse, and Repair. This helps students evaluate environmental impact and make more responsible design choices. Forces and Stress (Sc) - this unit covers how different forces such as tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion affect materials and structures, to contextualise...
LSBU’s “Product of South Bank” Graduate Showcase, This week, London South Bank University (LSBU) proudly welcomed guests to The Product of South Bank, its much-anticipated annual graduate showcase celebrating the work of final-year students from Product Design and Engineering Product Design, alongside select projects from across the School of Engineering. The exhibition launched with a private view on Wednesday evening (4 June), where visitors had the first look at a range of innovative student work. Highlights included basketball trainers with replaceable soles, watches made from recycled coffee grounds, and a diverse mix of projects tackling sustainability,...
Retrieval practice, Focus on Feedback not marking Developing Rosenshein’s Principles of instruction Session Content: What do you know about Rosenshein’s principle’s of instruction? Which strategies do you use in your lessons to provide feedback? Which strategies do you use after a lesson to provide feedback? How do you approach planning when teaching a new topic/concept? Presented by: Viraj Sharma, Assistant Headteacher Technology and the Arts, Moseley School and Sixth Form, Birmingham. Start...
Quick Step: Designing your new D&T Dept, This handy guide helps you if you are fortunate enough to have a new department or facilities, to ensure that you get what is best for you and students. It offers advice on how to gain funding, steer the planning and design, costs and functions of your new department, and includes H&S information, sources of advice and information and how to deal with architects and the building trade. The guide looks at the vision for D&T and what it will be...
British Aerospace Engineer and former President of the Royal Aeronautical Society., Jenny Body CBE, In this episode, we are delighted to be joined in conversation by Jenny Body CBE. Listen here Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Aerospace Bristol on the morning of our annual awards ceremony on the 13th of October this year. The recording was made almost within touching distance of Concorde, an aircraft that Jenny had the...
The case for decisiveness , Editorial for Designing 117 to be released in November 2020 I write this at the beginning of October and schools have been back for just over a month. At the time of writing the number of positive COVID cases is rising daily, university students nationally are finding themselves ‘locked down’ in halls and rented accommodation with the vast majority of learning delivered online, and schools are struggling as the number of positive tests in year groups forces school leaders to send year group ‘bubbles’ home to isolate and prevent...
GCSE Textiles Rescue Presentation - Using New Technologies to Improve GCSE Grades, GCSE Textiles Rescue - Using New Technologies to Improve GCSE GradesAges 14-16First released 2012; updated 2014 This presentation was delivered to a group of textiles teachers at a training event in 2012. The event was recorded and the narration is included in the presentation which gives ideas for using new technologies within textiles teaching, to motivate students and help them achieve their potential exam grades. The presentation looks at new technologies such as CAD/CAM, e-textiles, smart phones, the internet and VLEs and how...
GCSE Textiles Rescue Video - Binding - visible, GCSE Textiles Rescue – Binding: visibleAges 14-16First published 2014 This six minute video shows the technique of visible binding, explaining what this is and where it is used in products and step-by step instructions on how to make high quality bindings. A number of other instructional videos and presentations have been developed and are available showing a range of practical skills students can develop to improve their GCSE students’ grades. The GCSE Textiles Technology programme has been run by the D&T Association since 2012 with funding...
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