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Helping your child at home
Click on the websites below to access free resources, activities and games to use with your child at home.
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I Want to Design BBC Teach In this series of short films the designers from CBBC's I Want My Own Room pass on their top tips and design know-how to provide children with ideas and inspiration to get creative.
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Topmarks This website contains a wealth of educational resources to introduce students to the world of innovation and creativity.
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Culinary Schools This website offers a collection of over 150 online games to help familiarize children with food, farming, cooking, the culinary arts, the restaurant business and hospitality-related careers.
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STEM Use the website to explore a variety of activities and challenges that can be used to support children’s design and technology education.
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The School Run Make, build, code, construct, design, invent and engineer – each of these websites is packed with design and technology learning to keep your child learning, testing and creating at home.
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BBC Bitesize This collection contains curriculum relevant videos, quizzes and games to help Year 1/2 students with: tools for designing and design ideas and how to get creative.
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Science Museum There’s a great section on here for learning – with project ideas linking science and DT. You are also able to explore the museum and some collections link well to DT
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Robives Lots of ideas on here for mechanisms, some are charged (£2.50 each) but he also has a blog and you can probably use the images to create a project without having to pay for instructions. He’s also on Instagram with detailed plans.
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Design and Technology Lessons They have made a selection of suitable topics free for home and distance learning.
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Jamie Oliver Lots of recipes but also a ‘learn’ section. This also links to his channel 4 programme ‘Jamie: Keep cooking and Carry on.’ This may be a nice way to involve all the family.