Resources
From the Nuffield Foundation, these resources offer a wide range of ideas that will encourage primary children to think about the design and production of different items.
The activities range in their degree of difficulty and help young children to develop basic skills such as cutting, drawing and sticking...
Design and make a charity box
This is one of a series of resources designed to use the theme of Ramadan to support the teaching of the National Curriculum to pupils. This resource focusses on making a charity box that counts down the days in Ramadan, including some external design aspects. This could be used as a one-off lesson activity to...
Design and make a cookie cutter using CAD and 3D printing
This activity introduces the concept of 3D CAD design and some of the basic tools used with CAD software. The software used for the CAD activity is the free and widely used ‘TinkerCAD’. However, this could easily be substituted for any other 3D CAD software already available in school.
The activity involves...
Design and make a desk lamp
This project concentrates on the design and manufacture of lighting using simple electronics but with complex and functional part modelling. Students apply the tools in Autodesk Inventor to the challenging task of creating a virtual lamp design in parts, before manufacturing the product. Students will spend time...
Design and Make a Foam Rocket
This resource, aimed at upper primary, links to the topics of forces and earth and space. Children design and make foam rockets. They then carry out investigations using the rockets, such as how the angle of launch affects the distance travelled.
The resource contains notes on running the activity,...
Design and make a prayer mat
This is one of a series of resources designed to use the theme of Ramadan to support the teaching of the National Curriculum to pupils. This resource focusses on designing a prayer mat for use during Ramadan. This could be used as a one-off lesson activity to develop designing and sketching skills. Alternatively,...
Design and Make It! has a flexible unit-based structure.
The use of structured, as well as open-ended units ensures a balance between knowledge and understanding and designing and making.
Each unit builds on the previous unit and provides a higher level of challenge.
This teacher support pack accompanies the pupils' full colour textbook. When used with the students' book the support materials enhance classroom effectiveness and help raise standards of teaching and learning.
This teacher support pack accompanies the students' full colour textbook.
When used with the students' book the support materials enhance classroom effectiveness and help raise standards of teaching and...
Written to cover the popular new GCSE specifications Design and make It! GCSE electronic...