STEMCareers resources Product Designer, Age 11-14 years This resource pack focuses on product design in industry and aims to raise awareness of career opportunities and paths in this sector. The unit is built around a case study of a talented young designer who has risen to lead a design team in a major global company. Resources are provided for two creative designing activities: designs for some original lighting ideas to develop products for a specified market sector using LED lighting powered from a USB port; and a design styling task for the music controller for...
STEMCareers resources Kidstuff, Age 11-14 years This resource pack is focused on product design in industry and aims to raise awareness of career opportunities and paths in this sector. The unit is built around a case study of child’s play tepee designed and manufactured by ’Paperpod Ltd’. The core of this unit is a PowerPoint presentation which is used to present the task and provides some designing resources. There is also an introductory PowerPoint ‘Careers in Designing and Making’ and included are three files for the nets required for the included tasks. One is...
STEMCareers resources Glo for It, Age 11-14 years This resource supports awareness of career opportunities in the textiles and fashion industries, with a focus on glow in the dark materials. It includes basic information about bioluminescence and phosphorescent materials and their applications with websites for pupils to explore and find out more. It also contains design tasks for years 7, 8 and 9 covering career-context examples such as designing garments that do a job or make a visual impact through the use of glow in the dark materials. There is inspiration for developing products that...
STEMCareers resources Goldsmith, Age 11-14 years This resource provides a design task that focuses on individual work to highlight career opportunities within jewellery design and making. The aim is to raise awareness of career opportunities for designer makers with an opportunity for students to explore a typical career path through experience of a particular designing activity. The resource and designing activity is build around a case study of a typical designer maker with an interesting background and career path. A PowerPoint presentation shows her work together with an analysis of the positives and negatives of...
STEMCareers resources Food, Age 11-14 years This resource highlights career opportunities in the food industry, explores a typical food product development pathway and enables students to carry out a food technology project in Year 9 as preparation for GCSE option choices and a future potential career. The resource includes a PowerPoint presentation covering a number of questions students are likely to need answers to, such as What is food science and food technology? What does a food scientist do? and What qualifications do I need study food science or technology? and the myths...
STEMCareers resources Graphic Designer, Age 11-14 years This unit raises awareness of career opportunities in Graphic Design. It provides an opportunity for pupils to explore a typical career path, gives an insight into the diverse nature of Graphic Design and has a rapid response creative designing activity working to a tight deadline. There are teacher notes and worksheets while the PowerPoint presentation introduces a graphic designer, giving his background and experience and examples of graphic design. The resource also includes information about careers and links to a number of websites and further useful resources....
STEMCareers – Colour in Fashion and Textiles, Age 11-14 years This resource highlights career opportunities in the textiles and fashion industries, with a focus on how colour is widely used across a range of careers. There are links to maths, art and science, and also to business & enterprise and sustainability and geography. It includes PowerPoint presentations appropriate for years 7, 8 and 9 looking at an introduction to types of fibres, using CAD and linking to the work of an artist, and fabric construction, as preparation for GCSE option choices and a future...
STEMCareers resources Fashion and Textiles, Age 11-14 years This resource highlights career opportunities in the textiles and fashion industries, with a focus on how colour is widely used across a range of careers. There are links to maths, art and science, and also to business & enterprise and sustainability and geography. It includes PowerPoint presentations appropriate for years 7, 8 and 9 looking at an introduction to types of fibres, using CAD and linking to the work of an artist, and fabric construction, as preparation for GCSE option choices and a future...
STEMCareers resources Design and Make It, Age 11-14 years The project aims to give pupils the opportunity to develop something in the real industrial world, where engineers and designers often have to identify problems and think of solutions within their area of expertise. The focus for the design work is Electronics and Communications Technology (ECT), and it is within this that pupils will make the majority of their design decisions. The resource pack includes two PowerPoint presentations containing range of pupil activities and possible project starting points, and used with the accompanying teacher notes will...