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Product Design

Course Title: GCSE Product Design Technology

Examination Board: OCR

Entry Requirements (if appropriate): Not Applicable

Contact: Mrs Rowell

Course Aims:

Students will be given the opportunity to acquire and apply knowledge, skills and understanding through:

  • Analysing and evaluating products and processes;
  • Engaging in focused tasks to develop and demonstrate techniques;
  • Engaging in strategies for developing ideas, planning and producing products;
  • Considering how past and present design and technology, relevant to a designing and making context, affects society;
  • Recognising the moral, cultural and environmental issues inherent in design and technology.

Course Description:

This GCSE focuses on analysing existing products, the materials  and manufacturing processes that would used to produce the product in quantity. Students will use these skills to design, model and make there own products using a variety of materials. Emphasis will be placed on computer design, drawing and modelling.

How will I learn:

Interpret information from different sources, carry out calculations, interpret results and present findings, take part in discussions, read and obtain Information, find, explore and  develop information, confirm what needs to be done and who is to do it, plan work and confirm working arrangements, plan and try out ways of solving problems, evaluate all work.

Possible Career Pathways:

Product Design
3D animation
Children's Products and Toys
Product Sustainable Design and Transport Design

Subject summary:

During this year students will have worked in a couple of areas within Design:

  • Textiles
  • Resistant Materials
  • Electronics

Students have been taught a range of basic skills which are common to all the areas as well as specialist knowledge, understanding and techniques from the individual subjects.

Subject summary:

During this year students will have worked in three areas within Design:

  • Graphic Products
  • Resistant Materials/Mechanisms
  • Product Design

Students have been taught a range of basic skills which are common to all the areas as well as specialist knowledge, understanding and techniques from the individual subjects.

Subject summary:

Throughout Key Stage 3 the students will follow a balanced Engineering and Technology curriculum from the following areas:

  • Manufacturing/Resistant Materials
  • Graphic Products/Product Design
  • Mechanisms
  • Textile

Students have been taught a range of basic skills which are common to all the areas as well as specialist knowledge, understanding and techniques from the individual subjects.

This report has been written after consultation with all the department staff

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