If you were doing the CLOCK project for example, or a TORCH or a STAMP
WEB SITES of INTEREST
Contact these WEB-SITES as starting points of your
research for projects.
Let your teachers know if you find really good sites that they can check out too.
General Interest
Year 7
Drawing I History of Clocks | Measuring Time | Cool Robots | Space Exploration | Woods | Printing | Colour l Lettering & Fonts l Space Travel l Future World -2020 l
Year 8
For your work this year concentrate on completing all work that has been asked for.
Use ICT to improve your presentation. If you are making a TIMER for a game - or a FUSE TESTER look into basic understanding of electricity, timing and SAFETY DEVICES. These can be checked out on the Internet. For Food and Textiles work you can check how different your projects might need if the target market were people living or working in other countries. For the Game design task you might research games played around the world for inspiration on your number generator ( Dice or Spinner ) for a game task.
Use ICT to improve your presentation. If you are making a TIMER for a game -
Year 9
For all your projects this year try to become fully familiar with the DESIGN PROCESS and how products are made for manufacture as GCSE coursework is heavily structured to this approach to design. The Internet is a very useful way of doing RESEARCH but never let it dominate everything you do. Other forms of research can tell you a great deal - questionnaires and surveys will give information that may relate much more to the target market at which you are aiming. It is important that you know the terms that are used in research techniques as it can be defined as ‘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.).
