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This Week’s Website Update and Free Resource Downloads
COP26, the UN’s climate change conference is the focus of this week’s website updates with 4 free downloads linked to the impact of designing and making.
Some of This Week’s Thinking Points and Photos on Instagram
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- #COP26 31 Oct - 12 Nov www.ukcop26.org
- Climate Change video by Student Energy (who also have lots of great animated videos on different types of energy generation from traditional fossil fuels to sources of renewable energy)
- Video from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation on circular economy and climate change
- Lego have launched a ‘Building Instructions for a Better World’ handbook informing leaders what young people think should happen if we’re to tackle the climate crisis and create a more sustainable future. The handbook includes ten requests of policy makers that children identified as being key changes all illustrated in the traditional style of a Lego instruction booklet. Some of the pages in the handbook might be a good starting point for discussion around sustainability, climate change and COP26.
- Elizabeth Wathuti, a young environmentalist and climate activist from Kenya and founder of the Green Generation Initiative who is a speaker at COP26.
- COP26 resources designed for KS1-3 by ’Together for Our Planet’.
- Climate Change video by Student Energy (who also have lots of great animated videos on different types of energy generation from traditional fossil fuels to sources of renewable energy)
- Video on iconic designer Kenneth Grange
- Stella MCCartney’s use of fungi as a leather alternative.
- Video case study on a performance engineer for Sir Lewis Hamilton's X44 Extreme E Race team, whose work focuses on creating more sustainable cars in motorsport.
- Mastercard's Touch Card credit card is a nice example of how simple changes create a more inclusive design.
- Downloadable PDF from Compound Interest on nanotechnology
- Link to the STEM Ambassador programme who are offering online one to one mentoring to 14 - 16 year olds who might be considering a career in STEM.
- PANettle - sustainable denim made from naturally regenerative Himalayan nettle, organic cotton and treated with PPRMINT oil to keep the fabric fresh for longer.
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Our Product in a Tin Competition is Taking a Break
Our Product in a Tin competition will not be running for the foreseeable future. It’s been been a big success but takes a lot of organising, something that has become more of challenge due to impact of the pandemic. The competition is therefore taking a break to allow us to focus on our other work. The resources will remain on the website for schools to use as a module of work or as a competition within their own school.
See the 2020/2021 winners of our Product in a Tin Competition
OUR CPD COURSES COMING UP THIS TERM
Look at the face to face, blended learning and distance learning options we offer.
Blended Learning CPD
Our blended learning courses are equivalent to a one day training course with 2 hours live online training plus at least 4 hours of self directed study activities. This type of course is ideal if you find it hard to get released from school or if you are looking for resources to provide you with a programme of activities as part of a personal directed time CPD programme. Click on each course to find out more.
Live Face to Face CPD
We're currently only able to offer a limited number of face to face courses although we hope to be able to increase the number of these in the spring and summer term next year. Click on the course to find out more.
Although we currently only offer a limited number of face to face courses on our course calendar, if you're looking for face to face training and can get together at least 6 participants, e.g. your department or a local group of teachers, along with providing a suitable room, we can run the following one day face to face courses for your group:
- Practical Approaches to D&T Theory
- Planning & Auditing Your D&T Curriculum
- Supporting Textiles Specialists to Deliver D&T GCSE Core Content
- Using the Crumble microcontroller in D&T
For more details on how we can run the above courses at your school see the link to the information sheet on each of the course pages.
Distance Learning CPD Courses
Our distance learning CPD courses can be worked through at your own pace without the need for time out of school and without travel and accommodation costs.
Visit our full course calendar
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