Specialist Area: Resistant Materials

Scheme prepared by: Jamie Wilson

Date: January 2014
Year: 7 & 8 (Key Stage 3)
Project title: Introduction to Resistant Materials. The Pencil Box Project.
Objectives:
To develop knowledge and skills at working with hand tools and
machines
To develop knowledge of CAD and CAM processes
To work with hand tools and machines in a safe and competent
manner
To design and manufacture a useable product for an identified
market
To develop skills in preparation for GCSE level

Content outline:
Students are able to develop their skills to manufacture the pencil box given a
set of guidelines.
Become use to measuring accurately the pieces for the project.
Become confident in working to tolerances.
Develop own design skills to produce designs for the acrylic pencil box lid
using Techsoft 2D design
Develop understanding of wood working joints.
To select and reject materials appropriate for the project.
Main FPTs
Marking out a half lap
joint
Cutting out a half lap
joint
Setting up and using a
pillar drill
Applying an
appropriate finish.

DMA
To design and make a
marketable pencil box
for an identified target
market/client.
Key DT skills:
Working in the workshop
Marking out and cutting a half lap joint
Safety in the workshop
Safe use of hand tools and machines
Selection of suitable materials
Applying an appropriate finish
Use of ICT- To be used by the students for
drawing the pencil box in Isometric and
Orthographic projection. Use of digital camera
throughout unit of work to record progress and
evaluations. To use Techsoft 2D Design to
produce designs for the pencil box lid and to
output to the laser cutter.
SMSC/ECM
Working with others and in teams.
Consideration of materials and where they come
from.
Environmental issues.
Safety issues.
Main resources:
Workshop Wax
Range of hand tools Glue
Range of machines PPE
Pine Laser Cutter
Acrylic
ICT equipment

Key concept/Importance Statement
IS- Working with Resistant Materials to produce a product of high quality, which is useable by the intended
identified client, taking in to consideration health and safety and the environment and building in
CAD/CAD
KC- To respond to briefs and apply knowledge and understanding of materials and techniques in the
manufacturing of a high quality product.

This unit of work is to form part of the carousal students travel in Key Stage 3. It is designed to introduce
the student to working within the workshop. Early emphasis in the unit of work is safety and the use of
common tools and machines. As the unit of work develops students consolidate this knowledge to
produce a wooden pine pencil box of a marketable standard with an acrylic lid which is designed and
manufactured using CAD/CAM. In addition to this and as time allows, students engage in a small project
manufacturing a plastic (acrylic) mobile phone holder.



































Order of delivery-

This unit of work comes with a class booklet and range of homework activities. The activities are
designed to be challenging and allow the students to make progress in line with the schools set
targets.

Order of delivery Homework
1 Introduction to Resistant Materials and
setting of targets

2 Health and safety in the workshop.
Identifying safety issues when working in the
workshop and how to minimise the risk.
Health and Safety Poster
Programmes of study to be covered:
(From NC Doc 2013/2014)
Identify and solve their own design problems
and understand hot to reformulate problems
given to them.
Develop specifications to inform the design of
innovative, functional, appealing products
that respond to needs of variety of situations.
Select from and use specialist tools,
techniques, processes, equipment and
machinery precisely, including computer-
aided manufacture.
Some will- select from and use a wider, more
complex range of materials, components and
ingredients, taking into account their
properties.
Test, evaluate and refine their ideas and
products against a specification, taking
into account the views of intended users
and other interested groups.

Assessment criteria:
Unit of work assessed continually throughout the
rotation.
1
st
assessment following the production of the
introduction project of the keyring.
Final assessment and awarding of the NC level at
the end of the rotation upon completion of the
pencil box.
Use of language:
Correct technical vocabulary used throughout the
lessons. Keywords and new words identified to
the students and recorded in booklets. Page in
booklet for keywords and meaning.
Numeracy skills:
Measuring and marking out of the comb joint.
Working within tolerances.

G&T differentiation:
Students identified from the G&T register. Students work from the first assessment used to help judge if
student is more able in this particular area of technology. Students challenge and extended through more
independent work and range of processes used on the pencil box.
PLTs
Self managers
Effective participators
Cross Curricular Links:
Maths- Measuring materials and cutting to sizes within set tolerances.
Literacy- Learning of new technical vocabulary
Geography- Where materials come from throughout the world.
Citizenship- Environmental impacts the products we design and make have on the world. The Fives Rs.


3 Designing of the keyring Drill sheet

Woods in the home
4 Manufacturing the keyring. Project designed
to allow students to manufacture a product in
the first few lessons of the unit of work.
Project aims are to show students common
tools and machines and where the equipment
is kept. Project allows students to start to
follow the health and safety rules of the
room.






First assessment carried out
5 Evaluation of the keyring, including taking a
digital image of the product before it is taken
home.
Evaluation of keyring by parents

6 Woods research. Students identify the three
types of wood and which woods fall in to
each of the categories.
Joint research

Rendering activity
7 Design specification- Students write a
specification for the pencil box.
Tools worksheet part 1
8 Manufacturing of the pencil box.
During demonstration of cutting the half lap
joint students write the process in their
booklets.
Tools worksheet part 2
9 Manufacturing plan Crossword
10 Manufacturing
11 Designing of acrylic lid using Techsoft 2D
Design. Manufacturing of lid using the laser
cutter

12 Application of finishing process Finishes research
13 Evaluation Evaluation of pencil box at home
Second assessment carried out
14 If time allows- Acrylic mobile phone holder