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Design and Technology | GCSE | Core content

This course is broken into two parts :Part A) Core Content (1)

Part B) Design specialismTimbers (7) or Paper and boards (3)

Everyone studies the core content these will be taught, mostly, in the single lessons.

(1,3 or 7) is the topic section found in the text books)

1 Core content (what chapter you will study)

Blue boxes will have questions you need to write these into your books and answer.

Question

This box show how many marks you can score ( 2 Marks)

These boxes will have key terms and words that you need to learn for your exam.

KEY TERMS

Red boxes

Blue Boxes

These boxes have the tasksand core content in.

Use these to help develop your knowledge of the core

content. Pink words are command words based on

how you will show your learning.

Light task boxes

Exercise book


1.1 The impact of new and emerging technologies

1 Core content |1.1 The impact of new and emerging technologies

Explain ONE reason why unemployment in the UK may rise as new and emerging technologies develop.

Question

( 2 Marks)

Demographic movement: the way in

which the population’s structure changes.For example: an ageing community or migration into and area.

KEY TERMS

TASK: • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages

of countries losing people.• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages

of countries gaining people. 2 bullet points for each.

• How new and emerging technologies have had an impact on people, culture and society.

• How developments in industry have affected production and the environment.

Learning objectives: By the end of this section, you should know:


Explain ONE benefit of crowd funding that can help to promote new and emerging technologies.

Question

( 2 Marks)

Enterprise: A business, started by someone who shows initiative by taking risk setting it up.Crowd Funding: A method of raising funds from many people to help start a project. E.g. ‘Kick starter’Sustainability: The ability to meet the needs of the present without making problems for the future generations.

KEY TERMSTASK: Using the text books (page 4) • Research 4 different types of enterprise. Think

which would be the best and why? • Describe how sustainability is affected by

transportation. Copy the diagram below andanalyse how these images link together?

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Funding People

IDEAS

Date: 25/9/18

Learning Objective: 1.1 The impact of new and emerging technologies. • Identify a range of ways in which materials can be

used to minimise waste.• Defend the statement “natural fuels are running out

if we continue to use them we will run out” What is the demand on natural resources? How can they be minimised?

Pollution: The release of contaminating substances that are likely to harm the natural environment. Recycling: The process of converting waste material into other usable products, such as glass bottles made from recycled glass. Consumer: A person who uses goods and services

KEY TERMS

Finite resources What are they?

Q

Explain TWO ways in which a shampoo manufacturer could change the packaging of its products to reduce transportation costs.

Question

( 2 Marks)

Oil

Gas

Coal

Write your answer here use about 5 lines. And then leave a

gap of three lines underneath for teacher feedback.

ReducingReusingRecyclingRecovering

Write in your own words give examples for each

Stick in your book

Stick in your book


Explain TWO ways in which a shampoo manufacturer could change the packaging of its products to reduce transportation costs.

Question

( 2 Marks)

Pollution: The release of contaminating substances that are likely to harm the natural environment. Recycling: The process of converting waste material into other usable products, such as glass bottles made from recycled glass. Consumer: A person who uses goods and services

KEY TERMSTASK: Using the text books (page 5) • Identify a range of ways in which materials can

be used to minimise waste. • Defend the statement “natural fuels are

running out if we continue to use them we will run out” What is the demand on natural resources? How can they be minimised?

Extension:Think about the technology you could be using in 10-20 years time. How do you think you will travel? How will you contact your friends?


Homework tasks:Research Global warming and ethical issues when designing.• What new technologies are there

to slow the effects of global warming?

• What is fair trade and how does it help business ethically?

For each explain how they help by listing the advantages.


Explain ONE advantage of a company employing migrant workers.

Question

( 2 Marks)

Apprenticeships: A job with training that allows people to gain nationally recognised qualifications. Automation: Using control systems to operate equipment.Culture: The way a group of people behave, dress, eat and live their lives.

KEY TERMSTASK: Using the text books (page 6) • Memorise, How technology impacts: Children,

People with disability, wages, high skill workers, apprenticeships and culture.

• Use mind maps and flash cards to help you.

How Technology

impacts CHILDREN

flash cards mind maps

Date: 2/10/18

Learning Objective: 1.1 The impact of new and emerging technologies.

Stick in your book

• Memorise, How technology impacts: Children, People with disability, wages, high skill workers, apprenticeships and culture.

• Use mind maps and flash cards to help you

Apprenticeships: A job with training that allows people to gain nationally recognised qualifications. Automation: Using control systems to operate equipment.Culture: The way a group of people behave, dress, eat and live their lives.

KEY TERMS

flash cards

Student task: using the blank cards make your own revision cards

Answer

QExplain ONE advantage of a company employing migrant workers.

Question

(2 Marks)Stick in your book

Repeat the process for the 6 areas: disability, wages, high skill workers, apprenticeships and culture.

Option 1

Option 2

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj02pWqt-fdAhVMlxoKHfY0A04QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https://www.healthandsafetysigns.co.uk/product/disabled-sign/&psig=AOvVaw0BH6rHYL2eN_ak0iKfkua7&ust=1538558534283198

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj02pWqt-fdAhVMlxoKHfY0A04QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https://www.healthandsafetysigns.co.uk/product/disabled-sign/&psig=AOvVaw0BH6rHYL2eN_ak0iKfkua7&ust=1538558534283198

TASK: Card Sort Activity:• Arrange the cards into the advantages and

disadvantages. • Rank the advantages most useful to least

useful. List the disadvantages most damaging to least damaging.


Culture: The way a group of people behave, dress, eat and live their lives.

KEY TERMSTASK: Using the text books (page 7) • Identify, how changes in shift patterns

affects society and how the internet of things works.

• Use the diagram in the exercise books to illustrate how new technology is affecting how we work remotely.

RAISE TIME:LOOK BACK THROUGH YOUR BOOK.

Make corrections to errors you may have made.Respond to the comments made by the teacher as an answer to a question. Highlight it then, in green.If you struggle use the exercise book and/or SPOT.


Lots of amazing work Lots of amazing work Lots of amazing work Lots of amazing work Lots of amazing work.

Lots of amazing work Lots of amazing work Lots of amazing work. Mistake

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Lots of improved work Lots of improved work Lots of improved work

correction

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Challenege: Research TASKMany modern products are easier to recycle. How are companies separating plastics to help make recycling easier?


TASK: Using the text books (page 8) • Identify the possible advantages and

disadvantages of video conferencing. • List in a table.• Summarise, in your own words, how

these terms affect the environment: Material separation Transportation of goods around the

world Packaging of goods Pollution

Explain TWO ways in which a company that produces televisions could reduce the packaging waste.

Question

( 4 Marks)

TASK: Using the card sort organise the production techniques and systems into:Description – Example - Pros and Cons.

Check your answers on page 9&10


Homework tasks:Exam revision • Revise section 1.1 ready for your

test. • Create mind maps and revision

cards.• Bring your resources to your next

lesson.


1.2 Evaluating new and emerging technologies to inform decisions

DO IT NOW TASK

Critical evaluations : process that identifies positives and negatives from a range of areas to check how if the design is good enough.

KEY TERMS• What technological advances has driven the

development of the mobile phone?

TASK: Examples of the 5 types of evaluation questions can be found in the text books. (Page 11)

DO IT NOW TASK


KEY TERMS• How design decisions are affected by

emerging technologies.


The fact sheet.

The important bits you

lot need to know!

Read through both ideas

which one is the best?

(1)Create a design of the chosen product, label the

most important facts(2)Summarise the one thing

that describes this product and how it works

in less than 10 words(3) List and describe the top

3 features.

DO IT NOW TASK


KEY TERMS• How design decisions are affected by

emerging technologies.


DO IT NOW TASK


KEY TERMS1. Do customers want a new type of power source?2. What new technologies could influence how it is made?3. Are potential materials environmentally friendly?4. What materials are available? 5. How much are customers willing to pay?6. What is the designs lifespan?7. Is the intended market set for budget or premiums?8. SPAG


1 Core content |1.2 Evaluating new and emerging technologies to inform decisions


KEY TERMS

• The importance of evaluative process and criteria when considering the impact of new and emerging technologies.

• How design decisions are affected by emerging technologies.

• Why current and future scenarios need to be fully investigated.








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Teacher comment about error…Ask question for pupil to try and improve.


correction


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Carbon footprint: the amount

of CO2 emissions that can be directly or indirectly at linked to a companies activity. Bigger the carbon footprint the bigger the impact.Life cycle analysis:An analysis of environment impacts related to a product from the extraction of raw materials.

KEY TERMSObjective: • Identify the 6 stages of the Life cycle

assessment (LCA). • Watch the video then, Explain the steps

involved in carrying out each stage.


Carbon footprint: the amount

of CO2 emissions that can be directly or indirectly at linked to a companies activity. Bigger the carbon footprint the bigger the impact.Life cycle analysis:An analysis of environment impacts related to a product from the extraction of raw materials.

KEY TERMSTASK: • Take your shoe off! • Draw around your foot!• label your very own eco foot print!

Flip learning TASK: • Energy generation,• Complete the table for next

lesson.


Homework tasks:Exam revision • Revise section 1.2 ready for your

test. • Create mind maps and revision

cards.• Bring your resources to your next

lesson.


1.3 Energy generation, storage and choosing appropriate sources

XBOX controller made from carbon fibre

Catch Phrase: What is the image in the background and what is it made from?

• Choose a question you feel you will get right.

• If you get it wrong the tile behind stays.

• If you get it right the tile is removed showing part of the bigger picture.

• Once all questions have been attempted you can make your overall guess in your exercise books.

Life cycle assessment

Sustainability Enterprise Just in Time

Crowd fundingThe internet of

things

Raw extraction, Processing

Manufacturing Assembly

UseEnd of life

StandardisationCarbon

footprintBatch

production Mass production

Video conferencing

Q5Kick starter is know

as a type of?

Q9When CO2 emissions

make an impact it becomes part of the

Q2A posh word that is all about recycling.

Q6When everything is

controlled by a remote control it is

known as?

Q10A set number of

products made in limited amounts is

known as…

Q3When a business

takes imitative and risk it is know as an?

Q7When meetings take

place around the world it business

use…

Q11Need to make car

parts and children's toys? Use this level of

production…

Q4What does JIT mean?

Q86 points of the LCA

are…

Q12Always using the

same styles is known as

Q1What does LCA stand

for?

Date: 19/11/18

Learning Objective: 1.3 Energy: generation, storage and choosing appropriate sources

Answer

QExplain two reasons why coal is classed as a non-renewable energy source.

Question

(4 Marks)

• Methods of generating energy• How energy is stored and used• Factors to think about when selecting a power

source.• Differences between the different energy sources.

Finite: non- renewable source of material/fuel. Once it is gone there is no more.

KEY TERMS

Coal is

…………………………………………………………………………………

Photovoltaics: Using cells to generate electrical power by converting energy from the sun.

KEY TERMS

Stick in your energy table here. Folded up. 1.3 renewable energy page 15 and 16 from table fill in the blanks. Write no more than two examples of each.






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correction


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Challenege: Research TASKMany modern products are easier to recycle. How are companies separating plastics to help make recycling easier?

Feedback from exam questions

What do you notice about your feedback answers?

Feedback from exam questions WAGOLL

9 Mark question

4 Mark question

By looking at what a good one looks like can you see the amount of information needed in your answer to get the marks. Think about breaking the question into smaller chunks and underline the keywords so you understand what you have to answer as a method of good practice.

Learning Objective: 1.3 Energy: generation, storage and choosing appropriate sources

Date 26th Nov

KEY TERMS

Renewable energy: A source of energy that can be used again and again and will not run out.

Explain One reason why solar cells are more environmentally friendly than rechargeable cells.

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1 Core content |1.3 Energy generation, storage and choosing appropriate sources

Finite: non- renewable source of material/fuel. Once it is gone there is no more.

KEY TERMS

• Methods of generating energy.• How energy is stored and made available for use.• What factors need to be considered when selecting a

power source.• How to discriminate between energy sources and to

select appropriately.


How do these 6 images link together?


How do these 4 images store electricity?

Draw out each image and list 2 points about how they use power systems

Use the exercise book on page 15/16 to help you.


Example of power system tree.

Batteries and Cells Solar Cells Mains electricity Wind power

Write 3 facts on batteries and cells in your book

Write 3 facts on solar cells in your book

Write 3 facts on mains electricity in your book

Write 3 facts on wind power in your book

PAGE 17 CHART


What is the environmentalimpact on a car manufacturing

factory in china compared to one in the UK

Flip learning TASK: • Create a line drawing of a

circuit diagram which includes the circuit diagram for: A battery, Bulb/LED and a switch.


Homework tasks:Research power systems:• Batteries and Cells• Solar energy • Mains electricity • Wind power For each explain how they provide power.

Solar panels made from photovoltaic cells

Catch Phrase: What is the image in the background and what is it made from?

• Choose a question you feel you will get right.

• If you get it wrong the tile behind stays.

• If you get it right the tile is removed showing part of the bigger picture.

• Once all questions have been attempted you can make your overall guess in your exercise books.

Just in Time (JIT)

Biomass fuelTidal power and

hydro electricWind power

• Emits pollution• technology to reduce

emission is expensive • Impacts the

landscape

• Reliable in warmer countries

• Homes get their own power

• More energy with brighter sunshine.

One off

Life cycle assessment

Hydro electric energy

Carbon footprint

Continuous production

Photovoltaics

Q5What 3

disadvantages are their for using coal as

a fuel

Q9Dams can create

renewable energy what is the energy they create called?

Q2Organic matter made

from woods and rubbish is used for.

Q62 advantages of solar

power

Q10The amount of CO2

emissions are known by companies as

their …

Q3Name two types of renewable energy

that use water?

Q7Solar power PV…

what does PV stand for?

Q11Making products

24/7 is known as?

Q4Freely available can be used in remote areas no emissions

is…

Q8A single unique

product is part of what method of

production?

Q12LCA stands for

Q1What can increase

efficiency and reduce waste?


TASK: 1. What is Energy Storage?2. How does a Power system work?3. How does a battery make electricity?4. What is Mains Electricity?5. What is a disadvantage of Mains

Electricity?6. How do solar cells work?7. What are the 5 factors of choosing the

right type of power system?

Challenge task: In your own wordsExplain what each factors advantages are.

KEY TERMS

Input: A way in which something is given to circuit to do. E.g. a switch or thermistorOutput: The result of a process in the form of light, sound and movement. E.g. an LED or a buzzer

Homework: Complete the set of exam questions on levers. Answer all three questions 6 marks. Hand in Friday 18th October.


TASK: • Copy, neatly with a ruler, the circuit diagram below.• Describe what input and output components are

and list 3 examples of each.

Switch

Battery 9V

Bulb

KEY TERMS

Input: A way in which something is given to circuit to do. E.g. a switch or thermistorOutput: The result of a process in the form of light, sound and movement. E.g. an LED or a buzzer

TASK: Create a working thermistor circuit in circuit wizard. Identify 6 types of input component and 6 types of output component.


TASK: • Create a working thermistor circuit in circuit

wizard. • Identify 6 types of input component and 6

types of output component.

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What are the names of these components?

Explain One reason why solar cells are more environmentally friendly than rechargeable cells.

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