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Schemes of work: Design and technology at key stage 3 Teacher's Guide

APPENDIX 4: PROGRESSION IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

STRAND E - MAKING AND PRODUCING IN QUANTITY YEAR 8

Year 7 - Unit 7E Designing and making for yourself

Year 8 - Unit 8E Producing batches

Year 9 - Unit 9E Ensuring quality production

Unit 8E Producing batches
Knowledge, skills and understanding

About the unit

Through this unit, pupils should be able to:

Food, Resistant materials and Textiles

  • use processes, tools, equipment and techniques to make with some precision, showing that they understand their uses
  • revise and consolidate their understanding of health and safety regulations
  • take account of the technical requirements needed to make a product
  • use manufacturing aids to ensure accuracy and aid volume production.

Product evaluation

Organise a range of activities that give pupils an opportunity to:

  • discuss the needs of users and the extent to which the product meets the design criteria.

Design and make assignment

During the DMA, pupils would be expected to:

  • put together a design specification
  • produce a product within constraints
  • develop a system to ensure quality
  • use a sequence of drawings or notes to clarify and communicate detail before making
  • bring together resources at the right time
  • use tools, equipment and techniques to make the product with precision
  • justify their decisions about materials and methods of making a product.

DMAs

8E(i) Pasta production; 8E(ii) Sheet materials; 8E(iii) Juggling balls