Product Design (Resistant Materials)

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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 addition:

• Looking sideways
Describes ways to develop links with other subjects in the curriculum.

• Linking thinking
Describes ways to develop connections between the different activities in the design hexagon.

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx33w

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