KS3 & KS4 design and technology curriculum

Knowledge of critiquing products, materials and manufacturing processes is essential for effective designing. This unit builds upon the previous unit in Year 10 'Product analysis: Encouraging healthy lifestyles', in which pupils learn how to critique different products, materials and processes. Knowledge lays the foundations for pupils to justify their decisions when creating ideas as part of iterative designing and the later Year 11 unit 'Core principles'.

1. Diversity and inclusivity
2. Empathise using immersive experiences
3. Inclusive design
4. Analysis products to identify improvements
5. Material degradation
6. Functional testing of products
7. The aging population
8. Quick sketching to generate idea
9. Combine materials when modelling
10. Iterate using immersive experiences
11. Evaluate immersive experiences
12. Manufacturing processes limitations
13. Exploded drawings to present ideas
14. Peer evaluation

• Pupils can empathise when designing.
• Pupils can design for ergonomically sound products.
• Pupils can identify suitable existing products to analyse.
• Pupils can modelling design ideas combining different materials.
• Pupils can identify the desirable material properties for a design and the specific materials which demonstrate these.
• Pupils can identify manufacturing process opportunities and limitations, make choices and justify.