Enhances classroom effectiveness and helps raise standards of teaching and learning. This pack addresses issues concerning differentiation, progression and continuity within D and T. It places emphasis on individual target setting, whereby pupils' achievement is easily monitored.

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.

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

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.

Accompanying the pupils' full-colour textbook, this pack enhances classroom effectiveness and helps raise standards of teaching and learning.

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.

Each project will take 10-12 one-hour lessons, plus homework time. Pupils are given one or more of 8-10 sequential project sheets at one of two levels, appropriate to their ability/level targets. (See sample)Each sheet provides stimulus material and clear prompts for the pupils. These are organised under headings which correspond to the Attainment Target. (See sample)Corresponding template sheets, on which pupils can write and draw, have checklist prompts to help with gathering evidence to support the assessment. On Target: D&T can be used at the same time to help achieve a higher level. (See sample)At the end of the project, the teacher can use the assessment checklist grid to make an overall 'best fit' judgement which can be justified with reference to evidence from specific project sheets. (See sample)