» Raising Achievement in Design and Technology: Resistant Materials

LESSONS

Generic Pages

• 7 THE QUESTIONNAIRE Work on this page enables students to become more competent with questionnaire design.
• 9 PRESENTING INFORMATION To enable students to present information and data from questionnaires, using appropriate graphs.
• 11 ANNOTATING DIAGRAMS To help students understand the need for annotation in the design process.
• 13 ORTHOGRAPHICS Allows students to practise the skill of orthographic drawing, which can be used to enhance their projects.
• 15 PARTS EXPLOSION To enable students to understand how components make up a product and to draft out exploded views for final presentation.
• 17 WORKING LOG Allows students to plan a log of working practice and progress, in order to review work for evaluation.
• 19 CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM To enable students to evaluate the process involved in the making of their product, by comparing their production plans with their working logs, and thus producing a control system review.

Needs And Opportunities

• 21 DESIGNER NEEDS Students analyse the design situation, in an attempt to recognise the needs of the designer.
• 23 THE BRIEF To enable students to produce an opening design brief, having carried out appropriate research.
• 25 THE PURPOSE Students learn how to evaluate and compare products with a similar purpose, using a 'Functions Against' table. They then apply this to their own coursework product.

Research To A Specification

• 27 SPECIFIC RESEARCH Students practise using different research methods to gather information with which to write a product specification.
• 29 REACHING CONCLUSIONS This page helps students to produce an analysis of research results, gathered by a variety of methods, in a written or graphical form - leading to a specification.
• 31 BE SPECIFIC This page helps students to produce a detailed design specification that will meet examination coursework requirements.

Generating Design Solutions

• 33 THE GENERATION GAME Introduces students to a way of generating ideas to produce a varied range of solutions.
• 35 DETAILS To show how a range of appropriate drawing techniques can best be used to show details of a design.
• 37 JUSTIFICATION To enable students to justify their design choices.

Development Of The Chosen Design

• 39 ON TRIAL Enables students to clarify and plan trials for product development.
• 41 MODEL FOR DISPLAY Students examine the issues linked to model-making, by planning and making a model.
• 43 FINAL PRESENTATION Shows students how to draft a presentation drawing of their final design, using 3-D and annotation.

Planning And Making The Product

• 45 MATERIALS AND METHODS Enables students to plan processes for the production of their prototype (or prototype part) based on an awareness of constraints due to materials used.
• 47 QUANTITY PRODUCTION AND CONTROL Identifies the methods for quantity production and applies it to the students' design prototypes.
• 49 BE SAFE! Using a 'spot the dangers' activity, students consider the safety issues essential in working with machinery.
• 51 PLANNING PRODUCTION - FLOW CHARTS To introduce students to the correct way of using flow charts.
• 53 PLANNING PRODUCTION - GANTT CHARTSTo introduce students to Gantt charts.
• 55 PLANNING PRODUCTION - PROCESS SHEETS Enables students to plan the processes used in the production of their products.

Making And Evaluating The Product

• 57 MAKE YOUR MARK Introduces students to marking out on selected materials, by producing an information sheet and applying it to their products.
• 59 BE CRITICAL To enable students to realise that criticism is an essential part of improving a product.
• 61 USER TRIALS Students plan a user test, to help evaluate and improve their product prototypes.

Appendices

• 62 APPENDIX 1 Pen Stand diagram to accompany page 11, ANNOTATING DIAGRAMS
• 63 APPENDIX 2 Answers for page 55, PLANNING PRODUCTION: PROCESS SHEETS