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Year Group: 8

Term: Spring Term

Unit Duration: 12 Weeks

Number of Lessons: 12

Unit Title: Electronics

Unit Assessment: Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources.

Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes

Fertile Question: How can we create a functional moving toy that demonstrates principles of movement and mechanics.

Key Skills / Concepts / Prior Knowledge that students should have when starting this unit:

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Suggested materials teachers could / should use:

• Bitesize Website

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Home Learning Tasks students should complete:

• Visual worksheets that reinforce and extend in-school learning

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• Research tasks that develop their understanding of designers from diverse contexts

• Be able to create the basics of two-point perspective drawing.
• Start to be able to create a more complex two-point perspective drawing of design ideas.
• Understand the properties and limitations of prototyping material.
• Be able to create a plan for constructing an initial model of a design idea..

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Key Skills / Concepts / Prior Knowledge that students should cover:

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• Develop independent decision-making and problem solving through iterative design.
• Develop a quality product using on-going evaluation
• Produce a well ordered evidence of making through a diary or photos.
• Use the design specification to evaluate the model against the design criteria.
• Methods of research to identify a clients’ needs and wants.
• Understand Form, Fit and Function
• Understand the 4 types of motion
• Understand the 3 types of levers
• Understanding how a rotary system works
• Identifying different types of CAM and their applications

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Stretch: Key Skills / Concepts / Prior Knowledge that students should cover:

• Understand about different types of systems( open loop. Closed loop and feedback/decisions)
• Understand simple circuits design.
• Describe the difference between analogue and digital signals
• Understanding the applications of microchips and integrated circuits