Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
Welcome to Resourceful Mind! Through my extensive experience in teaching design, engineering, graphics, food and textiles, I've developed resources that make topics easy to understand. My materials include clear visuals, simple explanations, and engaging tasks to reinforce learning and support learners.
2 sided A3 revision sheet for look cover test and producing flash cards to cover the requirements of the WJEC specification for core knowledge and understanding.
Lesson for Food Technology
1-3 lessons on designing a smoothie
Starer
Video Links
Mini plenary anatomy of a smoothie
Differentiated support sheets
Design task with WILF
Exit Card
A revision sheet that covers unit 2 of the WJEC food and nutrition Specification for the principles of nutrition
Macro and Micronutrients
RDA
Amino Acids
Good Fat V Bad Fat
Carbohydrates
Nutrition Labeling
A lesson I gave to highlight the work of Airbus
Covers the requirements of the WJEC Design and Technology specification 2017.
Also could be used to talk about material properties and uses.
Standard lesson
Starter
Lesson objectives
Video link
Mini Review
Narrative slides about the Airbus A380 scaffolding for final activity
Think Pair share (material properties and uses)
Final task: Create an infographic on the Airbus
Exit card
A lesson I gave on looking at the work of other designers focusing on Shigeru Miyamoto
Standard lesson
Starter
Video link
Scaffolding narrative about Shigeru Miyamoto
Mini Review
Task: Design an 8/16 bit pixel character
Extension task: design a pixel level
Pupils really engaged with this lesson and enjoyed the design activity
Cover lesson task or Homework
News article on Bionics with arguments for and against
Key Definitions task
Comprehension questions
60 word summary create an argument for and against.
Wellbeing and Ethos
discuss your plans for the school holiday
Reminding pupils to not miss opportunities
Fall into the Summer holiday rut
Top 10 summer holiday ruts
Best things to do with your summer
Some of the things to do are for Wales and might need to change for your local area
I would include pictures of you enjoying summer holidays as a child and now
I have added an updated version into the package
A 4 hour learning activity/project that encourages independent learning to meet set outcomes.
This activity was developed as a short project based learning activity to compliment the work that the pupils do in school.
There are 3 milestones for the pupils to complete using the resources provided to answer a driving question.
Driving Question
How can we convince people to use eco-friendly products and reduce the impact they have on the planet?
Context
As a consumer you buy and throw away lots of products such as phones, pens, packaging. These products not only use lots of our resources but end up in landfills and cause pollution. We should all look to reduce our impact on the environment but as designers we should also consider how products impact the environment and look for ways to reduce that impact. Complete the milestones above to investigate the impact and how it can be reduced.
In the resource you will find an overview sheet and 4 suitable resource sheets to help pupils complete the desired outcomes.
This is a 10 hour project I created for pupils who are isolating or working from home during the Covid pandemic.
The premis of the project is to consider how design can have a positive impact on others. Pupils are expected to complete the project through independent learning were teacher support is not available.
In this project pupils will consider how they can design a product for someone with arthritis. They will look at existing products, carry out some research, create designs on paper and through tinkercad. They will model their designs using home made playdough and create a final pitch.
The project is designed so that their is some guidance on what the pupils need to learn or be able to achieve, links to internet resources to help them complete tasks and upload or provide evidance.
I use Google classroom to provide pupils with their own copy but you may want to adapt if pupils require paper copies.
Here is one of the powerpoints I made for our house competitions. Players can select from one of the classic children’s games and gain points by playing the game. The powerpoint is fully automated and interactive, There are various outcomes so if they do it once they could do it again for a different outcome. You can add slides and change the transition/links if you desire to make it easier or hard.
Interactive games
Operation
Buckaroo
Pop up Pirate
Jenga
Kerplunk
Guess Who
and a guess the board game quiz thrown in!
This took a couple of hours to create so if you use it and find it useful please review.
Thanks
Lesson on globalisation I made for WJEC Design and Technology but could be used for business studies or Geography.
Includes
Starter
Introduction
Discussion
Video link
60 word summary
Thought provoking images Mini Review
Exit Card
A revision sheet that can be easily followed by a student to do look/cover/test or make flash cards. Describes what they might be asked in an exam to familiarise themselves with questioning.
Extension task. get the pupils to create GCSE style questions from the examples given.
Pupils sometimes struggle to describe a materials properties and characteristic and justify why different materials are used for different products based on their attributes.
This lesson introduces pupils to new vocabulary and deepens their thinking by offereing real situations.
A mixture of activities from
Think pair share
Direct questioning
independent learning
Taboo
Summary
Mini reviews
This covers the specification requirements for the WJEC understanding the properties of hardwoods, tropical woods and softwoods.
This help sheet promotes independent learning for the the topic of woods and covers a majority of the criteria from the WJEC resistant materials specification on woods.
Pupils will require the following on their mobile / smart devices
QR code reader
the 'Aurasma' app
Then revision sheet also covers common misconceptions and advice on answering exam questions that require knowledge of wood.
Btec Engineering Learning Aim B Telematics
A powerpoint presentation that includes a starter, introduction, main activity, video links, task and plenary for this learning aim
Revision sheet and Bank sheet to revise topic: The impact of new and emerging technologies.
Covers
Market Pull V Technology Push
Product Life Cycle
Global production and its effects on culture and people.
Legislation
Consumer rights
Sustainability
Introduction to extrusion for the lesson after introduction to injection molding.
Starter
Lesson objectives
Video link
Animated process
Advantages and disadvantages
Task
Mini Review
Exit ticket