Design security
I can identify the rights and responsibilities of designers and produce my own designs which are compliant with these.
Design security
I can identify the rights and responsibilities of designers and produce my own designs which are compliant with these.
These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- Designers must not copy others' work.
- Designers must protect their own work.
- There are different ways to keep paper products secure.
Keywords
Plagiarism - copying someone else’s work without permission or credit
Copyright - a law that protects a creator’s control over their original work
Trademark - a symbol, word, or design that identifies and distinguishes a brand or product
Patent - a law that stops others from copying an inventor or designer’s idea or invention
Intellectual property - a legal right that protects creations such as inventions and designs
Common misconception
Patents and trademarks are the same thing.
Trademarks protect brand names and logos whilst patents protect inventions and new technologies.
To help you plan your year 10 design and technology lesson on: Design security, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 design and technology lesson on: Design security, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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Equipment
Examples of products with holograms, watermarks and other security features.
Licence
Starter quiz
6 Questions
notice trends or relationships in the data
notice differences in parts of the data
include averages or percentages for more insight
explain what the data shows in simple terms
connect the findings back to the original question