KS3 – Design and Technology
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Year 7 Projects |
Materials |
Practical Focus |
Folder Focus |
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Pine and MDF wood
Pewter / Microfibre cloth |
Chiseling/ cutting and shaping
Casting / CAD-CAM |
Metals and woods theory/ Generating ideas/ 3D drawings/ Evaluation. |
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Handheld ball bearing game |
Plywood and Perspex |
Butting joints, countersinking, cutting/ shaping. |
Graphical skills- Exploded view/ Generating ideas/ Evaluation. |
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Year 8 Projects |
Materials |
Practical Focus |
Folder Focus |
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Money box |
Wood- MDF |
Joints/ cutting/ finishing techniques/ CAD/CAM. |
Design Brief/ Research/ Generating ideas/ modelling the joints-prototypes/ Evaluation |
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Mechanical toy |
Wood- MDF/ Polymers- Perspex |
Creating jigs- prototypes, cutting, smoothness, finishing. |
Mechanical toy exercise- understanding of movement/ Generating ideas/ Modelling & creating templates/ Evaluation. |
