Product Design for Key Stage 3


Book Description

Enhances classroom effectiveness and helps raise standards of teaching and learning. This pack addresses issues concerning differentiation, progression and continuity within D and T. It places emphasis on individual target setting, whereby pupils' achievement is easily monitored.




Food Technology for Key Stage 3


Book Description

Accompanying the pupils' full-colour textbook, this pack enhances classroom effectiveness and helps raise standards of teaching and learning.




On Target for Key Stage 3


Book Description

Written as a guide to the National Curriculum requirements for Design & Technology, this book aims to help pupils to progress through Key Stage 3 and to ensure that they are well prepared for the start of their GCSE course. It explains what the subject is about and the areas of study involved, and gives an idea of the kind of work pupils are likely to be doing in Years 7, 8 and 9, depending on which areas their school offers. It then provides a check-list of the things pupils are expected to learn about during Key Stage 3, and finally explains the attainment targets and advises on what needs to be done for progression to the next level. Also included in an illustrated glossary of significant design-and-technology words.




Textiles Technology for Key Stage 3


Book Description

Accompanying the pupils' full-colour textbook, this pack enhances classroom effectiveness and helps raise standards of teaching and learning. It places emphasis on individual target setting, whereby pupils' achievement is easily monitored.




Exploring Design and Technology for Key Stage 3


Book Description

Develop knowledge, understanding and designing and making skills through Key Stage 3 so students are ready for the new GCSE in Design and Technology, with our brand-new Student Book. With topics directly linked to the new GCSE (9-1) specifications, Exploring Design and Technology will build a solid foundation by boosting your students' understanding of the key concepts, introducing them to important terminology and developing their practical skills through Key Stage 3. · Build understanding through years 7, 8 and 9 with engaging, carefully timed and level-appropriate lessons that draw on the GCSE subject content. · Develop practical skills with a variety of creative designing and making activities that use a wide range of materials, tools, equipment and processes. · Boost knowledge with clear explanations of important terminology and concepts that students will need to apply when identifying design problems, understanding user needs and developing design solutions in a range of contexts. · Encourage subject interest with 'find out more' - research features that broaden understanding of materials and their working properties, new technologies and the wider influences on designing and making. · Monitor and measure student progress with knowledge check questions provided for every topic.




Product Design


Book Description

Student workbook designed to teach the subject of Design and Technology as part of the British Key Stage 3 curriculum. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.




Ideas to Inspire - A Practical Guide to the Key Stage 3 Strategy in Design and Technology


Book Description

Designed to be of use to any school D&T department, this set of resources provides ready-to-use classroom activities, tailor-made for meeting the requirements of the Key Stage 3 Strategy in Design & Technology. The photocopiable teacher's file contains ready-to-go activity sheets, full supporting teacher notes and lesson guidance. Separate sections of activities for food technology, textiles technology and product design, all with a Year 7 focus, are also included. Customisable activities, colour artwork and photographs are available on an accompanying website, and colour acetates ready made for OHT use are available separately.




Design & Make It!


Book Description

Ensures a balance between knowledge and understanding, and designing and making. This book encourages pupils to provide appropriate assessment evidence, enabling them to produce a coherent folder of work demonstrating their designing and making skills.




Textiles Technology


Book Description

"Create!" is a Design and Technology course for Key Stage 3. It provides all the material needed to deliver the demands of the new Key Stage 3 strategy. The course follows the QCA scheme and the materials support ICT requirements.




Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School


Book Description

Design and technology is a subject that interests and excites most young people. It requires them to work both practically and theoretically, to investigate and research, design, plan, make and evaluate. It encourages creativity, decision-making and problem-solving as pupils get to grips with real needs and real products. Design and technology covers work with electronics, food, materials such as wood, metal, plastics and textiles, and requires the development of graphical skills, practical skills and theoretical knowledge and understanding. Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School, second edition, aims to help student-teachers develop their subject knowledge and professional knowledge and skills. It looks at the theory underpinning important issues and links this to practice in the classroom. Fully updated to take account of changes in the curriculum, there are new chapters on: teaching graphics, 14-19 vocational qualifications and cross-curricular links to literacy, numeracy, citizenship and sustainability. There are also chapters on: design and technology in the school curriculum developing areas of subject knowledge the importance of health and safety the use of ICT in the teaching of design and technology planning lessons managing the classroom assessment issues the integration of citizenship and sustainability into design and technology your own professional development. Bringing together insights from current educational theory and the best contemporary classroom teaching and learning, this book will prove an invaluable resource in enhancing the quality of initial school experience for the student teacher.