Choosing your

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Choosing your Product Design option
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What can you opt for?

• Food Nutrition
• Product Design

All worth 1 GCSE
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Home Economics- Food Nutrition
Nutrition Health Food Choice Preparation Food
Safety The Role of the Consumer Coursework
50 Examination 50

• Future Careers
• Catering Hospitality
• Dietician
• Teaching
• Nursing

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Product Design
You can work with lots of different materials if
you wish ......
Food
Paper card
Smart Materials
Plastics
Timber
Metal
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Product Design
What will you learn?

• How to research and analyse products effectively
• Develop your designing skills graphically and
  using CAD
• How to model and test your ideas using CAD / CAM
• Develop your practical skills so you can work
  with different materials
• How products are manufactured in industry
• How products are marketed and sold to the public

Coursework 60 Examination 40
Will produce an A3 design folder, 3D product and
packaging
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Project Ideas..

• A leading retailer has asked you to
  investigate the marking for dressing up outfits
  which will encourage children to take on a
  variety of roles

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Project Ideas..

• Healthy eating is a major concern for parents
  and a major food manufacturer has commissioned
  you to develop some fresh ideas. Investigate the
  snack market. Design a prototype product that is
  attractive to the under fives and is healthy

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Project Ideas..

• A major hobbies supermarket chain is
  investigating a new line of products..they would
  like you to produce a range of low priced craft
  and hobby kits. The kit could be for any of the
  following
• Textile crafts
• Electronics
• Cookery
• Scale models
• Greeting cards
• Candle making
• Construction
• Jewellery
• Gardening

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Engineering
Advertising
Furniture Design
Possible Careers
Printing Publishing
Film Effects
Graphic Design
Printing Publishing
Product Design
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Product Design

• Are you ......?
• Interested in finding out how things are
  designed manufactured?
• Do you enjoy being creative ,designing new types
  of products and working with a variety of
  materials?
• Do you like experimenting, sketching, using the
  computers and our new laser cutters to help bring
  your ideas to life
• DO YOU FANCY A CAREER BASED AROUND DESIGNING

If so...make sure you come and speak to us
tonight or on parents evening.