Years 7, 8 and 9

WEB SITES of INTEREST

Contact these WEB-SITES as starting points of your research for projects.

General Interest

Inventions | Designers | Architecture NASA -Space GCSE Revision Printing Plywood l General Bridges How Stuff Works l Automata
Different types of Bridges

Year 7

For the CLOCK project for example, (and others) start by listing all he things in which you are interested... research sports pictures,  clipart and existing clock designs. Use the Web to check for ideas. When thinking of your ideas check how much time you have before the project ends. Don't attempt a design that you don't think you will be able to finish. 

Drawing I   History of Clocks   |   Measuring Time   |   Cool Robots   |   Space Exploration |   Woods   |  Printing  |   Colour  Lettering & Fonts l   Space Travel  l  Future World -2020  l

Year 8

For your work this year concentrate on completing all the work that has been asked for.  Use ICT to improve your presentation. The Fuse tester looks into basic understanding of electricity and SAFETY DEVICES.  These can be checked out on the WWW.  For your Food and Textiles work you can check how different your projects might need to be if they were being done for other countries.  You might research games played around the world for inspiration on your Spinner /

Electrical safety   |   Designers   |   Architecture   |   Space Suits   Interior Design   |   
GCSE   l  Time Travel  l  Dice Games Cartoon Drawing  l   Fabric History   l  Inventors

Year 9

For all your projects this year try to become fully familiar with the DESIGN PROCESS as GCSE coursework is heavily structured to this approach to design.  The WWW is a very useful way of doing RESEARCH.
Research can be PRIMARY research where you do all the work (Questionnaires, photographs and surveys) or SECONDARY; when you  report other peoples' results from books, the Web, etc. When you have shown how your various ideas have been DEVELOPED and you have shown PLANNING to make the item you must remember to allow time for ANALYSIS of the whole project, TESTING and a full EVALUATION. Use ICT for presentation of results (Bar chats, graphs, etc.).

Become an inventor!  |    Traffic Sensors   |   Space   |    Anthropometrics & Ergonomics   | 
Clocks  l   Printing  |    Drawing    l   Colour   l    Mechanical Toys   l  Guide to Board prices l
English Clock Making   l   Mediaeval time  l  History of measures and measuring

WEB SITES   |   RESISTANT MATERIALS   |   GRAPHIC PRODUCTS   |   INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION   |
TEXTILES   |   FOOD  |   KEY STAGE 3   |   PROJECT & COURSEWORK HELP
PAPER SIZES AND WEIGHTS  I      AnthropometricsGames History l

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