This lesson is an excellent, accessible introduction into wood theory or KS3, 4 or 5. It is essential that design technology and/or product design students know this as part of their theory, ready for assessments. The lesson covers hardwoods, softwoods and manufactured boards, wood examples and their respective properties and manufacturing (felled, formed and finished) through various activities. Included is also a video on plywood production, worksheets and home learning tasks.

Introduction and tasks to develop students ability to recognise and describe a basic range of composite materials

I wanted to make my KS3 booklets more interactive, exiting and visually appealing to learners of all abilities. I used angry birds as a theme as I found that my learners responded well to this type of visual stimuli. The project I am doing with them is a simple balancing toy to develop their basic metal work skills. I also wanted to emphasise the national curriculum requirements in a simple way. At the start of the project learners are given the opportunity to discuss and develop an understanding of the curriculum logo's (thinking, communication, etc) and how they relate to their work. I have added the document in both PDF and Microsoft publisher format. All fonts such as 'angry birds' are available from dafont.com .

Covering activities, hazards, injuries and precautions when selecting and using PPE Pair tasks Mini Review Main Task Exit Question Flipped Learning Homework Meets the requirements for Unit 3 Learning Aims B or Health and safety in WJEC RM Spec

key words list, with deffinations and part of speech for RM

Use these to support literacy in product analysis, exam prep etc

Students work in two teams. Students start by rolling the dice and moving the counter to select the colour, the colour corresponds to a card. Learners select the coloured card and describe to the group the tool, process etc. on the card. The learner who guesses the tool, process being described wins the point for their team. A great whole class activity.

Students work in teams. Students start by rolling the dice and moving the counter to select the colour, the colour corresponds to a card. Learners select the coloured card and draw for the group the tool, process etc. on the card. This can be done as a group on the whiteboard or in teams/pairs on paper. The student who guesses the tool, process being drawn wins the point for their team. A great activity for a fun lesson starter and for revision.

Can be used as a whole class activity or small groups or pairs. One player spins the wheel and it will land on a colour. They then collect the coloured card matching the colour on the wheel and read the question to the other player. The person with the card then attempts to answer the question on the card to gain the marks for the question. If they are unable to do so this can be passed to other player to answer. A great revision tool which is engaging and fun for the group. Idea for the Edexcel syllabus but will apply for any resistant materials group.

A great revision lesson! Each learner is given an Bingo card with answers to questions. The teacher can then shuffle the question cards and pick a question to read to the group. Learners then search their cards for the answer. The first learner to achieve a completed line wins. Includes 20 Bingo cards, teachers question cards with answers and a PowerPoint with questions to show to the class, slides can be shuffled to create a random order.

Each learner in the group is given a card. Each card has one question and one answer on it. The first learner reads their question and the group discuss the answer. The person who has the correct answer on their card puts their answer down next to the question and asks their question to the group. This continues until all questions have been asked and the answer and dominoes are linked together. A great revision tool and whole class activity. Designed for Edexcel specification but can also works for any Resistant Materials course.

Starter or keyword revision activity

The boat project is a resistant materials project designed mainly for year 10 pupils but can be used for KS3 or KS4 pupils. This project is a skills based activity to teach pupils how to use tools in the workshop safely as well as teaching them basic wood working skills which are needed when developing the subject knowledge leading up to GCSE resistant materials. In the project the user will create a wooden boat and high impact polystyrene flags and sails using step by step guides and tutorials. This tutorial has curriculum links with maths with regard to the marking out and measuring accurately. The tutorial includes: A3 display worksheets. A4 booklet worksheets. Power point tutorial. 2D design boat steering wheel template. Exemplar product photo’s. Assessment sheets.

Specification points covered: 1.10. Know about and use appropriate adhesives and finishes for a variety of materials and conditions. 3.12. Have knowledge of permanent and non-permanent methods of joining materials together. Resources: PowerPoint®, worksheets; woodscrew samples, hand drill, screwdrivers. Vocabulary: permanent, semi-permanent, adhesive, head, thread, pilot hole, clearance hole, countersink. Lesson objectives/aims • Understand the range of different methods of joining materials. • Understand the difference between permanent and semi-permanent methods of joining materials. • Become familiar with one method of joining materials – woodscrews.

36 PAGES (!!) (A4) OF STUDY NOTES ON RESISTANT MATERIALS CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES including wood , metal and plastics. includes colour photos and diagrams

A simple worksheet that could be used as cover work or part of a lesson.

Grade descriptors for research, generating ideas, making and evaluating. These pages were created based around the new grade descriptors of 1-9 taking the main points that I expected pupils to meet within each of the areas. The pages include a space for self, peer and teacher grades and were added into work booklets to help pupils understand how to achieve a higher grade.

I use these exemplar folders even to this day! They are great to show students how different folders are graded, you can totally see the difference of a good folder and an under achiever. I also have examples on display to show students the different grade boundaries. There are two videos showing students work - these are really good to show students a finished product and what was involved in the making processes. You can also submit videos along with coursework folders.

A few games to help revise resistant materials. Also a random name generator for two teams to compete against each other.