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Design & Technology

GCSE course specifications, subject outlines, and careers links can be found on the Subjects page.

Key Stage 3 Topics:

Year 7
Resistant Materials

Electronics

Food
Healthy eating British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) BNF Education page BNF Diet through life Lifebytes - Balanced diet Food Information Healthnet
Design & make a pizza Pizza Hut Dominos Pizza Pizza Marketplace

Graphics

Textiles


Year 8
Resistant Materials

Electronics

Food
Design & make a healthy burger McDonald's Burger King Wendy's Big Boy

Graphics

Textiles

Year 9
Resistant Materials

Electronics

Food
Looking at food that is sold Sea Fish British Meat Manufacturers' Association
Reasons for choosing food Food Information
Design & make an airline meal Airline Meals

Graphics

Textiles

Key Stage 4 Topics:

Year 10 GCSE
Resistant Materials
Formal presentation drawing D&T Online
Mechanisms Automata Cabaret mechanical theatre

Electronics
PCB design & manufacture PCB Wizard demo download Crocodile Clips demo download Picaxe website

Food
Nutrients & their functions - vitamins, minerals, fibre, fat, protein, carbohydrate British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) BNF Education page BNF Diet through life Lifebytes - Balanced diet Food Information Healthnet
Special diets Vegetarian pages
Food processing Cook chill risks Carr's Foodtech - pasta Food module - coursework Cook freeze Pre-cooked chilled foods in catering What is Cook/Chill?

Graphics
Airline image/logo Design case studies Examples of logos Google's Airline website list
Travel game Google Search - Boardgame Hasbro UK Aardwolf Games Database

Textiles
Weaving & knitting Woolworks
Equipment & machines Brother UK - domestic machines Brother UK - industrial machines
Surface decoration - tye dye, batik, applique, embroidery, stencilling, screen printing, quilting, painting Embroiderers' guild
CAD/CAM Computer textile design group Fabricad

Year 11 GCSE
Resistant Materials
Major Project GCSE Bitesize Centre for Alternative Technology Design Council Design It

Electronics
Electronics project development Everyday Practical Electronics Mag EPE Mag links list Circuit Exchange International
Selecting components Picaxe website Data Book Shelf

Food
Investigation of cakes on sale UK Supermarket Directory Sainsbury’s Tesco Safeway Asda Waitrose Morrisons The Co-operative Group The Food Ferry Aldi Booths Kwik Save Budgens Somerfield Iceland Spar
Research for coursework British Sugar GCSE Bitesize Flour Advisory Bureau links Greens Flour Hovis baking basics Butter/Spreads
Food processing Cook chill risks Carr's Foodtech - pasta Food module - coursework Cook freeze Pre-cooked chilled foods in catering What is Cook/Chill?
Graphics
Individual project - research/ideas GCSE Bitesize

Textiles
Coursework project introduction GCSE Bitesize

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