Key Stage Three Resource Tasks
Nuffield Design and Technology has developed a specific type of learning activity called a resource task. These short, practical activities are designed to teach capabilities in an engaging way. • Strategy resource tasks: A suite of tasks that develop skills in using approaches to designing that are needed at all stages…
Student Glossary
A glossary from the Nuffield Foundation in the form of an A5 booklet with some words already entered. There is space for students to add their own definitions.
Key Stage Three Chooser Charts
The Student's Book contains seventeen chooser charts, which help students make decisions about approaches to take for Strategy and Communication. Also for selection of appropriate materials when working with resistant materials, textiles, food and technical components. The chooser charts are particularly useful when students…
Key Stage Three Case Studies
Helping students understand the relationship between technology and society is an important part of design and technology education. Nuffield Design and Technology does this through case studies. These are true stories about design and technology in the world outside school. By reading them, students find out more than they possibly…
Key Stage Three Capability Tasks
A range of resources from the Nuffield Foundation for students to develop and reveal their capability longer more open tasks requiring designing, making and evaluating are necessary. Sometimes these activities are referred to as projects, or design and making assignments. In Nuffield Design and Technology these are called capability…