Nuffield Design and Technology 11-14: Teacher's File
The Nuffield Design and Technology Teacher's File for Key Stage Three contains a large number of resource tasks which can be included in lessons. These short, focused activities are presented as instruction sheets and are intended to increase technical knowledge, skills and design strategies. The file starts with the full…
Improving Design Sub-skills
This Teachers TV programme follows resistant materials specialist Sharon Giraud, from Nower Hill High School in Harrow, as she teaches two lessons, three weeks apart, as part of a nine-week module on jewellery design. The new Key Stage Three Strategy at the time of filming placed a greater emphasis on design. Harrow was one of ten…
Bath Bombs and Rockets
This Teachers TV video shows how science AST, Alison Tiltman, is keen to work closely with other departments and encourage cross curricular learning. Combining science, design and technology, and maths, her Year Nine students take part in a challenge to imagine they are running their own cosmetics companies. As part of the project…
Designing for CAD/CAM 2
In this Teachers TV video, design and technology trouble-shooter Steve Stott has devised some innovative ideas to help students design for CAD/CAM. Steve is trying out a new scheme of work at John Kelly Technology College in Brent, where over a third of students speak English as a second language. Students here can be challenging…
Designing for CAD/CAM 1
This Teachers TV video follows Steve Scott, a local authority design and technology advisor, as he works with staff and students in a school in Barking and Dagenham. Steve believes that although CAD/CAM has revolutionised classroom teaching, it can sometimes lead to traditional design skills being ignored. He has helped to pioneer…
Design and Technology
This Teachers TV programme shows a complete lesson, uninterrupted and unedited with the intention of developing classroom observation skills. At the beginning of the film, the teacher gives a brief overview of the class and objectives for that lesson and afterwards, reflects on how she felt the session went. In the lesson, Year Eight…
Robot Challenge
In this Teachers TV video, a team of two schools from Yorkshire, design build and test a robot before travelling to America to take part in a competition against hundreds of other schools. The robot, made from a kit of 150 parts common to all teams, must be capable of competing in a basketball type game and the stakes are high. An…
Packaging Design
This resource from the Department for Education develops the 3-D thinking required to move between solid objects and their 2-D nets. The activities are placed in the context of packaging. Students flatten out a packaging box to show the flat 2-D 'net' that made up the whole pack and investigate how the net could be adapted…