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Produce a Quiz Show

In this Shell Centre modlue, Produce a Quiz Show, students devise, schedule, run and evaluate their own classroom quizzes.

This involves preparing, timing and testing questions using number and statistical concepts,...

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Produce a treadle pump

This resource looks into making a prototype of a treadle pump. 

Suggested learning outcomes include:

• To be able to manufacture a working prototype of a treadle pump for people living in a remote village.
• To be able to select appropriate materials, tools and equipment for a manufacturing...

Producing a Design for a Living Area for a Disabled Client

In this project, students use Autodesk Homestyler to design a living space for a disabled client. The design must include a ground floor living space with outdoor landscape. The overall plot must not exceed 25m x 60m and the living space must not exceed 10m x 40m. Students create a customer profile to base their...

This book explores the methods and technologies used to farm meat. It takes a global look at the farming industry, combining Science, Geography, and Economics to answer questions about farming fish. What is the...

This book explores the methods and technologies used to farm fruit. It takes a global look at the farming industry, combining Science, Geography, and Economics to answer questions about fruit farming. When did fruit...

This book explores the methods and technologies used to farm grain. A global look at the farming industry, combining Science, Geography, and Economics to answers questions about grain farming. When did people begin...

This book explores the methods and technologies used to farm meat. It takes a global look at the farming industry, combining Science, Geography, and Economics to answer questions about farming meat. What is the...

Producing Robust Programs

The first video is about defensive design considerations.  Data is not always entered in ways that a program might expect.  If this can be easily rectified without asking the user to re-input the data, it is known as input sanitation.  In addition, to prevent invalid data crashing a program, validation techniques...

Product analysis using the 5 Ws and ACCESS

This is one of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of the primary national curriculum. They are designed to support the delivery of key topics within science and design and technology. This resource focusses on analysing existing products.

Product analysis allows designers to understand how...