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.

Accompanying the pupils' full-colour textbook, this pack enhances classroom effectiveness and helps raise standards of teaching and learning. It places emphasis on individual target setting, whereby pupils' achievement is easily monitored.

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.