Manufacturing Post-16
This publication, from the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), helps students to understand the manufacturing process through a series of design challenges. Each has a specific brief and the topics include: • Designing and making a helping hand • Robotics: designing and making a walking robot • CAD/CAM: designing…
Fighting Crime Through More Effective Design
This case study, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), examines the impact of grant awarded to the Design Against Crime Research Centre at the University of the Arts, London. The Centre works on solutions to reduce criminal activity through the effective design of places, products, communications and services. The…
Technical Bulletins
These Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP) technical bulletins provide quick and accessible guidance for teachers on how to get the most from equipment and techniques in a learning environment. The subjects covered include: PODs Thermoforming Describes how rigid foam PVC sheet and clear acrylic sheet can give outstanding results…
Structures Post-16
Produced by the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), this book contains five design and make challenges and seven study files. The materials and activities help students to investigate structures and the use of resistant materials. The study units look at, and help students to practise, skills and techniques used in the production…
STEM Ambassador Activity: In Control
Published by the Royal Academy of Engineering, this activity looks at using alternative forms of transport, in this case cycling. The activity centres around groups of students developing an engineered product that represents the ideas of personal transport and sustainability. There is also a case study looking at a bike manufacturing…
Electronics Post-16
Produced by the Technology Enhancement Programme (TEP), this book introduces the world of electronics by looking at some important electronic components and how they can be put together to perform useful tasks. Projects in designing and making electronic circuits are included. Products that are set as design and make challenges…
Balloon Powered Car
An interactive activity from BLOODHOUND SCC in which students build their own balloon-powered car and then explore ways to make it go faster and further. Building a balloon-powered rocket car provides opportunities for investigation, team work and developing design skills. As well as focusing on science and technology, the activity…
4/5- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Textiles
A Nuffield Design Hexagon task focusing on a range of textile products.The resource aims to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected. This resource contains a number of activities for each side of the design hexagon (student pages and resource tasks). In…
Product Design (Resistant Materials)
A Nuffield design hexagon task focusing on product design (using resistant materials). Aiming to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected. This resource contains a number of activities for each side of the design hexagon (student pages and resource tasks). In…
Graphics Products
A Nuffield design hexagon task focusing on a range of graphics products. The resource aims to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected. This resource contains a number of activities for each side of the design hexagon (student pages and resource tasks). In…
Food Technology
A Nuffield design hexagon task focusing on food technology. The resource aims to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected. This resource contains a number of activities for each side of the design hexagon (student pages and resource tasks). In addition: •…
Electronic Products
A Nuffield Design Hexagon task focusing on a range of electronic products. The resource aims to extend understanding of how to evaluate a design by thinking how it affects people and whether it performs as expected. This resource contains a number of activities for each side of the design hexagon (student pages and resource tasks). In…
Computers Helping Design at Lower Key Stage Two: Design and Make a Mosaic Picture
One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a framed clay mosaic which can be displayed at school before being taken home to be displayed there. The purpose of this activity is to learn the skills necessary to design and make a mosaic from clay, using computer…
Designing Using Computers at Key Stage 2: Parking Cars
One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, children design a supermarket car park to a detailed design specification. This task could be linked with a geography local study, as it will highlight the varying needs of the people using a car park. The purpose of this activity…
Controlling Movement Using a Computer at Key Stage One: Roamer Bus
One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children investigate the movement of vehicles, from those they may have made, to commercial toys; from push along toys to remote controlled toys and a computer-controlled floor robot. The control of the floor robot will be the context for a storytelling…
What Would the Scissors Say on Screen?
One of four units from the Nuffield Foundation for Key Stage Two: Year Six. Build a multimedia software presentation using an authoring program previously introduced during ICT lesson time. This task asks students to build a multimedia software presentation using an authoring program previously introduced during ICT lesson time.…
What Sort of Light Will Work for You?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. The task is to design and make a light that is suitable for use in a particular situation. The device will be constructed from card, found materials and technical components. It will be powered by a battery and controlled by switches. This resource…
Should Your Creature Be Fierce or Friendly?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students work in groups to design and make a statue of a creature to welcome visitors to the classroom during the day. This task asks students to work in groups to design and make a statue of a creature that will welcome visitors to the classroom during…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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How Should Your Puppets Tell Their Story?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students in groups write a short story with a message before designing and making the puppets and theatre that can be used to tell the story. Planning the production is an important part of the activity, with the performance as its climax. The message…
How Will Your Beast Open Its Mouth?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make an animal with a moving mouth. Children study their own mouth and head movements and those of animals before designing their animal's mouth. The mechanisms used by the children are restricted to a cam and follower,…
How Fast Should Your Buggy Be?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a controllable, battery-powered toy vehicle using card, wood, found materials, mechanical and electrical components. The toy created can be based on an actual vehicle, on a vehicle from a book or film, or it can be a fantasy vehicle…
How Do You Take Your Tea?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children research a person's preferences for a hot drink and fulfill those preferences by serving a drink that meets the specification. Students also investigate the uses of hot drinks in their own families. This resource can be downloaded either…
Does This Game Stop You from Being Bored?
Part of the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology series, this resource asks children to design and make a toy or game for a bed-ridden patient of approximately nine years of age. Many pupils will have experienced the tedium of being confined to bed when recovering from a minor illness and are likely to have considerable…
How Will You Store Your Favourite Things?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a container that can hold one or two favourite small items safely. Students identify one, or a few, small items that are precious and to make a suitable 'treasure' box. From its appearance, the container reflects the…
What Shape Should Your Pastry Be?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make a new pastry product for a particular group of people. The product will be based on the children's experience of the traditional jam tart and each child will carry out market research to identify the needs and preferences…
What Display Will Your Class Share?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and produce a classroom display about a current topic in another subject. The children will work in groups and as a whole class. The display should be useful in the classroom, durable, re-usable and look attractive. Children will learn…
What Music Would You Like to Make?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which children design and make a simple musical instrument and use it to play a part in a piece for four players. There are opportunities to explore rhythm, simple melody lines and the arrangement of parts. This resource can be downloaded either…
Will Your Party Hat Be Funny or Fantastic?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children can design and make a decorated paper party hat to wear at a party they have helped to organise. The party can be held to celebrate a particular calendar event such as Christmas or Easter, the end of term, the beginning of summer, or to celebrate…
Should Your Software Speak?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which students produce a multimedia presentation using software they are familiar with from previous ICT lesson time. The presentation content must first be researched and the presentation itself needs to be attractive and easy to use. It should…
How Will Your Roly Poly Move?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students design and make a simple push-along toy (a roly poly) using a mixture of found materials, paper and card. The toy should be designed to provide amusement in both its appearance and the ways it moves. It may be for the students themselves or…
What Should Be Stuck to Your Fridge?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology in which students design a fridge magnet set that will appeal to young children. The fridge magnets are made from layers, which add considerably to their attractiveness, and are used to hold up a list of commonly mis-spelt words. Each table or group…
How Scary Should a Calendar Be?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology materials in which students design and make a calendar illustrated with monsters, one for each month of the year. Each monster is designed and produced by a team of children using suitable computer software. The calendar must be made to meet the preferences…