Ideas to Inspire - A Practical Guide to the Key Stage 3 Strategy in Design and Technology

Ideas to Inspire - A Practical Guide to the Key Stage 3 Strategy in Design and Technology
Author: Jayne Ashman
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2003
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0748773843

Designed to be of use to any school D&T department, this set of resources provides ready-to-use classroom activities, tailor-made for meeting the requirements of the Key Stage 3 Strategy in Design & Technology. The photocopiable teacher's file contains ready-to-go activity sheets, full supporting teacher notes and lesson guidance. Separate sections of activities for food technology, textiles technology and product design, all with a Year 7 focus, are also included. Customisable activities, colour artwork and photographs are available on an accompanying website, and colour acetates ready made for OHT use are available separately.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Design and Technology in the Secondary School

A Practical Guide to Teaching Design and Technology in the Secondary School
Author: Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007-06-11
Genre: Design
ISBN: 113409776X

This practical and accessible workbook is designed to support student-teachers, NQTs and beginning teachers as they develop their teaching skills, and increase their broader knowledge and understanding for teaching design and technology.

Teaching the National Strategy at Key Stage 3

Teaching the National Strategy at Key Stage 3
Author: Pat Perks
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134135548

National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) for Key Stage 3 will be introduced into Secondary Schools in September 2001. The NNS document: Framework for Teaching Mathematics in Years 7 to 9, is based on the National Curriculum, but offers a very different interpretation of some of the expected learning outcomes for year 7 to 9. This practical book, interprets and explains the document for busy practitioners, spells out the expectations of the framework and offers guidance on how to fulfil these, describes and explains the types of teaching methods for maximising students' learning, and includes many practical ideas for classroom activities within the framework of the NNS.

Exploring Design and Technology for Key Stage 3

Exploring Design and Technology for Key Stage 3
Author: Paul Anderson
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1510481354

Develop knowledge, understanding and designing and making skills through Key Stage 3 so students are ready for the new GCSE in Design and Technology, with our brand-new Student Book. With topics directly linked to the new GCSE (9-1) specifications, Exploring Design and Technology will build a solid foundation by boosting your students' understanding of the key concepts, introducing them to important terminology and developing their practical skills through Key Stage 3. · Build understanding through years 7, 8 and 9 with engaging, carefully timed and level-appropriate lessons that draw on the GCSE subject content. · Develop practical skills with a variety of creative designing and making activities that use a wide range of materials, tools, equipment and processes. · Boost knowledge with clear explanations of important terminology and concepts that students will need to apply when identifying design problems, understanding user needs and developing design solutions in a range of contexts. · Encourage subject interest with 'find out more' - research features that broaden understanding of materials and their working properties, new technologies and the wider influences on designing and making. · Monitor and measure student progress with knowledge check questions provided for every topic.

Understanding by Design

Understanding by Design
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416600353

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Aspects of Teaching Secondary Design and Technology

Aspects of Teaching Secondary Design and Technology
Author: Gwyneth Owen-Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134508735

Beginning by outlining the national curriculum for design and technology, Aspects of Teaching Secondary Design and Technology goes on to look at what design and technology is in the primary school, at examination level and post-16. Vocational qualifications relevant to design and technology are also discussed. There are chapters looking at the relationship between design and technology and the wider social and cultural context. The development of cross-curricular skills and value judgements are discussed as are sustainability and the role of the community in the teaching and learning of design and technology. Together, these articles comprise a sound guide to good classroom practice, related to the requirements of the curriculum, and rooted in the professional perspectives of experienced teachers.

Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineers

Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineers
Author: Hermann J. Koch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 111906743X

Practical Guide to International Standardization for Electrical Engineering provides a comprehensive guide to the purpose of standards organizations, their relationship to product development and how to use the standardization process for cost-effective new product launch. It covers major standardization organizations in the field of Electrical Engineering offering a general overview of the varying structures of national standardization organizations, their goals and targets. Key questions for standardization are answered giving the reader guidance on how to use national and international standards in the electrical business. When shall the company start to enter standardization? How to evaluate the standardization in relationship to the market success? What are the interactions of innovations and market access? What is the cost of standardization? What are the gains for our experts in standardization? Key features: Provides guidance on how to use national and international standards in the electrical business. Global active standardization bodies featured include IEEE, IEC and CIGRE as well as regional organizations like CENELEC for Europe, SAC for China, DKE for Germany, and ANSI for USA. Case studies demonstrate how standardization affects the business and how it may block or open markets. Explains the multiple connections and influences between the different standardization organizations on international, regional or national levels and regulatory impact to the standardization processes. Two detailed focused case studies, one on Smart Grid and one on Electro-Mobility, show the influence and the work of international standardization. The case studies explain how innovative technical developments are promoted by standards and what are the roles of standardization organizations are. A valuable reference for electrical engineers, designers, developers, test engineers, sales engineers, marketing engineers and users of electrical equipment as well as authorities and business planners to use and work with standards.

Teaching Food Technology in Secondary School

Teaching Food Technology in Secondary School
Author: Marion Rutland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134091303

The introduction of National Curriculum Technology moved away from teaching about food in the context of the home and domestic science, towards commercial food technology. This work offers an evaluation of this development and the required changes of emphasis for teaching.

On Target for Key Stage 3

On Target for Key Stage 3
Author: Tristram Shepard
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1998
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780748735112

Written as a guide to the National Curriculum requirements for Design & Technology, this book aims to help pupils to progress through Key Stage 3 and to ensure that they are well prepared for the start of their GCSE course. It explains what the subject is about and the areas of study involved, and gives an idea of the kind of work pupils are likely to be doing in Years 7, 8 and 9, depending on which areas their school offers. It then provides a check-list of the things pupils are expected to learn about during Key Stage 3, and finally explains the attainment targets and advises on what needs to be done for progression to the next level. Also included in an illustrated glossary of significant design-and-technology words.

Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design

Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design
Author: Andrew J. Keane
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1119406323

Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design is the essential guide to designing, building and testing fixed wing UAVs (or drones). It deals with aircraft from two to 150 kg in weight and is based on the first-hand experiences of the world renowned UAV team at the UK’s University of Southampton. The book covers both the practical aspects of designing, manufacturing and flight testing and outlines and the essential calculations needed to underpin successful designs. It describes the entire process of UAV design from requirements definition to configuration layout and sizing, through preliminary design and analysis using simple panel codes and spreadsheets to full CFD and FEA models and on to detailed design with parametric CAD tools. Its focus is on modest cost approaches that draw heavily on the latest digital design and manufacturing methods, including a strong emphasis on utilizing off-the-shelf components, low cost analysis, automated geometry modelling and 3D printing. It deliberately avoids a deep theoretical coverage of aerodynamics or structural mechanics; rather it provides a design team with sufficient insights and guidance to get the essentials undertaken more pragmatically. The book contains many all-colour illustrations of the dozens of aircraft built by the authors and their students over the last ten years giving much detailed information on what works best. It is predominantly aimed at under-graduate and MSc level student design and build projects, but will be of interest to anyone engaged in the practical problems of getting quite complex unmanned aircraft flying. It should also appeal to the more sophisticated aero-modeller and those engaged on research based around fixed wing UAVs.