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This document includes profiles for all the designers as listed in the AQA GCSE Design & Technology Specification. Designers included: Alexander McQueen Aldo Rossi Aljoud Lootah Charles Rennie Macintosh Coco Chanel David Adjaye Elsie Owusu Ettore Sottsass Gerrit Reitveld Harry Beck Joe Casely-Hayford Karim Rashid Kusheda Mensah Louis Comfort Tiffany Marcel Breuer Mary Quant Morag Myerscough Norman Foster Philippe Starck Pierre Davis Raymond Templier Rei Kawakubo Sir Alec Issigonis The Singh Twins Vivienne Westwood William Morris Yinka Ilori Zaha Hadid. Can be used as a revision resource or printed and presented as a display.

A set of recipes used to tech students a range of different cooking skills with a sweet focus. These were used as part of a Bake Off project where students were taught a range of skills before developing their own recipes to complete in a bake off style competition. All recipes can be cooked in 1 hour and include picture stages as well as written stages to allow for differentiation. All recipes are editable so can be adapted or your own use if needed.

This document includes profiles for all the required designers for the AQA A-Level Product Design Specification. Includes: James Dyson Philippe Starck Margaret Calvert Dieter Rams CHarles and Ray Eames Marianne Brandt Can be used as a revision resource.

This power point document contains profiles for all the required movements for the A-Level Product Design specification including: Arts & Crafts Art Deco Modernism Streamlining Post Modernism Each movement has an overview, details of key characteristics & philosophies as well as examples of items made as part of the movement and a range of different artist/designers. This could be used as a revision resource.

These resources include a full lesson by lesson scheme of work, a student booklet and powerpoint resources for each lesson. This project aims to introduce students to a range of different textiles skills including batik, tie dye, block printing, embroidery and basic sewing machine skills to manufacture a cushion. I have successfully been running this project for a number of years with KS3 students but it could be adapted for older or younger students. All files are editable so you can adapt for your studnets.

This document contains all the profiles of the Companies listed in the AQA GCSE Design & Technology specification. This includes: Alessi Apple Braun Dyson Gap Primark Under Armour Zara. Can be used as a revision resource or printed out and used as a display.

This document features one cover page for each section of the AQA A-Level Product Design specification. This allows students to set up a comprehensive and well organised revision folder, notes, handouts and resources can then be filed in the correct section. Each page featured the specification content, key words/concepts and associated exam questions.

This project leads students through designing and making a usb night light with a laser cut card shade. These resources include a SOW covering each lesson, student booklet and accompanying powerpoint. This was aimed at KS3 but is fully editable so it could be made suitable for older or younger students. So our students didn't miss out on basic wood working skills when doing this product design rotation we included a short focussed practical task based on developing accuracy to manufacture a small boat toy.

A detailed design brief to provide students with details to complete a designer inspired clock project. Aimed at AS product design students but suitable for younger students with some adaption. Editable document.

A range of worksheets which can be used as homework’s or to support tasks in lessons. Includes topics like different materials, manufacturing methods etc.

1 point and 2 point perspective activites which can be used in lesson or to support as a homework task. Suitable for a range of year groups including KS3 & KS4.

I used this resources as a competition over a week to raise awareness of design in school, each day a different image was displayed around school and students could try to work out what it was and put in a an entry to a competition. This got students talking about design and we had some interesting follow up conversations in lessons. This could also be used as a starter activity.

A comprehensive powerpoint to lead you through an MP3 speaker project. Originally used successfully for controlled assessment at GCSE but can easily be adapted for a shorter/longer project with older or younger students. Also contains a student template for the project which can be adapted also to meet the needs of your students. Can also be used to teach a range of design strategies as students are lead through creating designs using different approaches. Speakers use electronics kit from Rapid Electronics.

Annotation helpsheet for use with KS4 & KS5

A simple smart and modern materials reference sheet, ideal to use as a poster or as a revision sheet.

A 12 slide presentation that can be used in a lesson to introduce the purposes of packaging but is also ideal to print as a display.

I devloped these resources to use to assess the basic abilities of new students in Design & Technology. The baseline assessment can be run in all areas of technology and covers general skills like rendering, measuring, designing and the use of basic tools like scissors. Our students come from a range of feeder schools and come with a variety of different skills, this allows us to compare them easily. This sceme can be run in any of the technology areas and does not require specific materials other than the basic stationary and thin card. Included is a powerpoint that can be used to guide students through the task, a work booklet for students to complete and a scheme of work which details each lesson. Aimed to run over 4 x 1hr lessons but all resources are editable so can easily be adapted but can also be used as is.

This powerpoint presentation can be used in a lesson to introduce the 6 R's but also make a great display when slides are printed out. There are 12 slides in total createing a 3 x 4 or 4 x 3 display.

This is an ideal SOW for students to introduce them to Resistant Materials / Product Design. The product is a plywood box with a pewter cast gift. The resources include a SOW with lesson by lesson detail, student work booklet and a powerpoint to support lessons. I have been successfully running this project for a number of years with KS3 students but it could be adapted for older or younger students. All resources are editable so they can be adapted for your students.