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Design Technology

 

 

Welcome to the Design Technology pages.
Look at the DT ideas resources listed below.
If you have any good ideas of your own, why not share them?

  • Instrument Evaluation PDF file - A PDF worksheet, which children can use to evaluate different instruments (as part of the QCA DT unit on Musical Instuments). Contributed by Jane Robinson.
  • Musical Instruments PDF file - A complete workbook (PDF) which will help children as they work through the QCA unit on making musical instruments. Contributed by Gaynor Hart.
  • Roamer Shopping - A great idea for making a scenario in which to use a roamer.
  • The Biscuit Business - Let groups of children set up their own biscuit businesses! Who will make the most profit?
  • Making Kites - An outline of the benefits of making kites with your class.
  • Build a Bridge - Group activity, in which children have to make a bridge, despite a number of restrictions.
  • Design a Package - Get the children to look closely at packaging, and then design their own.
  • Inventions - Give a group of children a bag of materials and get them to create something using all of the contents.
  • Design your Classroom - Design a new layout for your classroom (and perhaps try out some of them, to evaluate their effectiveness).
  • Weaving with Lolly Sticks - Try weaving with wool and lolly sticks! The technique is very easy to master and your children will love making lots of their own original designs.
  • Newspaper Creations - Create realistic looking structures or objects using only newspaper.
  • Object of the Day - Each day, look at an everyday object in relation to how it was designed and made.

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