Design Technology
Key Stage 3
CAD/CAM
- Leadership – leading other pupils within certain components of the lesson ie demos in the use of software.
- Advanced work skills on software being used.
- Use of more advanced software programmes.
- Look to design more complex end results through the choice of designs.
Woodwork
- Extension tasks that push your learning – making of advanced features for practical tasks using different tools and machinery.
- Choice of wood joints to use – choose the more complex wood joints in order to construct your practical pieces.
- Use of different materials to advance understanding of their uses and capabilities.
- Leadership – leading other pupils within certain components of the lesson ie demos in the use of tools/equipment.
Food
- Technical recipes challenges – choose the recipes with some stages/instructions missing so that you have to ‘fill in the gaps’ and work it out for yourself.
- Additional dish components – bring in extra components for your dish e.g. icing for cakes, in order to enhance the overall presentation of the final dish.
- More technical presentation challenges – try a different way of presenting elements of your dish to what you have been shown, e.g. piping mashed potato on a shepherd’s pie.
- Research different recipes at home using the skills learnt in class and experiment with new or different ingredients you would usually use.
- Leadership – leading other pupils within certain components of the lesson ie demos in the use of tools/equipment.
Key Stage 4
Food
- Research different recipes at home using the skills learnt in class and experiment with new or different ingredients you would usually use.
- Organise’ Come Dine with Me’ style dinner parties.
- Research multicultural foods and experiment using more unusual ingredients.
- Research and use ethical product manufacture e.g. fair trade and organic items.
Product Design
- Recycle, reuse and repair as much as possible to develop creativity alongside economically and environmentally minded responsibilities.
- Research and use ethical product manufacture e.g. fair trade and organic items.
- Enter external competitions relating to Design and Technology.
- Watch films charting key design or technological advances.
- Identify technologically related articles in newspapers, websites and magazines.
- Embrace opportunities to enhance knowledge of cultural design and manufacture.
- Research smart materials looking at how they could be integrated into your product.
Resistant Materials
- Help with DIY and using tools at home - gives an awareness of tools, equipment and machinery e.g. you could help assemble flat pack furniture to understand what is needed to make it and how each component is used.
- Research smart materials looking at how they could be integrated into your product.
- Identify technologically related articles in newspapers, websites and magazines.
- Embrace opportunities to enhance knowledge of cultural design and manufacture.
- Research and use ethical product manufacture e.g. fair trade and organic items.
Here are some useful books:
- 9 Heads: A guide to fashion drawing by Nancy Riegelman
- Exploring Textile Arts by Elaine Perry
- Experimental Textiles by Kim Thittichai
- Techno Textiles 2 by Sarah E Braddock Clarke and Marie O’Mahony
- Manual Of Nutrition-HMSO
- Desserts-James Martin
- Cooking Explained-Barbara Hammond
- The Hairy Bikers Family Cookbook (Mum knows best) Si King and Dave Myers
- Cook With Jamie-Jamie Oliver
- Jamie’s Dinners Jamie Oliver
- The Naked Chef-Jamie Oliver
- How To Eat-Nigella Lawson
- Complete Cookery Course-Delia Smith
- The Cookery Year-Readers Digest
- Real Food-Nigel Slater
- English Bread and Yeast Cookery-Elizabeth David
- Best Kept Secrets of the Women’s Institute Series
Here are some useful websites:
- www.ted.com
- www.technologystudent.com
- www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVdt.htm
- www.brainpop.com/
- www.design-technology.info/home.htm
- www.coolmax.invista.com
- www.vogue.com
- www.design-council.org.uk
- www.bbcgoodfood.com - numerous ideas and recipes
- www.jamieoliver.com –Jamies campaigns, ideas and recipes
- www.nigella.com -recipes
- www.foodafactoflife.org.uk – a wide range of information on food and nutrition
- www.eatwell.gov.uk – the Governments guide to healthy eating, food hygiene, current ideas
- www.hairybikers.com - recipes
- www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk – information on all aspects of school meals
Here are some useful films / TV programmes that could help with your research:
- Project Catwalk/Runway (Sky)
- The Secret World of Haute Couture (BBC)
- ‘Textiles’ (YouTube)
- Masterchef
- Come Dine With Me
- Celebrity Chef shows (Jamie Oliver etc)
- River Cottage (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall)
- The Hairy Bikers
Here are some designers that could help to inspire your work:
- Ross Lovegrove
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Gerrit Reitveld
- Vivienne Westwood
- Matthew Williamson
- Yohji Yamamoto
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Karl Lagerfeld
Here are some trips and visits that may be useful to you to gain primary research:
- The BBC Good Food Show – NEC
- The Gadget Show Live – NEC
- The Clothes Show Live – NEC
- The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair - NEC
- Engineering & Construction Recruitment Exhibition - NEC
- Cake International – NEC
- Grand Designs Live – NEC
Further afield
- Design Museum – London
- The Crystal – London
- Theme Parks – Alton Towers and Thorpe Park both offer talks on how Design Technology is used within their theme parks.
- Madame Tussauds – London, there are downloadable activity packs for KS3 available through the website.
- Car production plants – Tours are readily available throughout the year to understand the manufacturing process of vehicles.
- New Designers – London, graduate design exhibition.