How Cool Is Your Drink?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children design and make a healthy cold drink for another class member. Each child will have to find out the preferences and needs of the consumer and will include feedback from that person as part of the evaluation process This resource can be downloaded…
Designing and Making with Food at Key Stage Two: Baking Bread
One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, children are tasked to make bread rolls. It is necessary to set the context for the activity. This may be to agree a theme as a class or group, such as 'to make bread rolls for a children's party' or to base their…
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…
How Do You Like Your Toast?
One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, students write a specification for toast that meets the identified preferences of a particular person. They then make a serving of toast to that specification. The task can be widened to include the development of a production system for…