GCSE D&T Key Resources
GCSE D&T Key Resources
The new single subject GCSE provides an excellent opportunity for departments to modernise their D&T curriculum and offer genuinely effective and inspiring D&T. These resources have been carefully designed to help your department plan for and implement the new GCSE and are provided as both departmental CPD and classroom teaching resources.
Further titles will be added as the new specifications are finalised for first teaching in 2017.
CPD resources
Teacher Guide: Preparing a GCSE Scheme of Work
- A guide to developing a robust and irresistible curriculum leading to success with the new D&T GCSE
Control Systems Teacher Training PowerPoints
- Enabling you to teach your students to build control technology into their designs
Teaching for the Contextual Challenge
- Enabling you to prepare your students to engage in user centred iterative designing
- Enabling you to teach your students technological perspective
Understanding and choosing materials
- Enabling you to teach your students to design across material areas
Generating Initial Design Ideas
- Enabling you to teach your students how to be creative
Developing and communicating design ideas including CAD
- Enabling you to teach your students to develop and communicate exceptional specifications
These resources are also available as a pack of all seven items.
See also:
- A flexible collection of videos, PowerPoints, activities and guidance sheets to support key aspects of NC D&T across all phases
- Classroom teaching and CPD resources
Energy storage and conservation
- Classroom teaching resource including a presentation and supporting activities
Materials and their properties - Polymers
- Classroom teaching resource focusing in plastics
Materials and their properties - Metals
- Classroom teaching resource covering metals
Materials and their properties - Textiles
- Classroom teaching resource covering textiles
Materials and their properties - Timbers
- Classroom teaching resource covering timbers
Materials and their properties - Papers and boards
- Classroom teaching resource covering papers and boards
Materials and their properties - Set
- Set of six classroom teaching resources for GCSE
The Design and Technology Secondary Subject Leaders Files 2017
A set of ten files in pdf format with a wealth of information and links to help subject leaders plan and develop their departments in line with modern curriculum and practices.
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