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Design Exercises

 

Technology Exercises in the KS4 Design and Resistant Materials Technology software package

Safety exercises
1.
 Safety Rules and Defined Procedures
2.
 Hazard Warnings and Instructions
3.
 Safe Materials
4.
 Safe Storage of Materials
5.
 Tool Safety
6.
 Safety Features On Tools
7.
 Safe Working Practices
8.
 Safe Working Area
9.
 Product Safety
10.
 Risk Assessment Exercises

Exercises about the characteristics and uses of materials 
11.
 Ferrous metals
12.
 Non-ferrous metals
13.
 Timber
14.
 Manufactured boards
15.
 Thermoplastics
16.
 Thermosetting plastics

Exercises about measuring, marking out & setting up tools and machines
17.
 Measuring and marking out tools for metal
18.
 Measuring and marking out tools for wood
19.
 Measuring and marking out tools for plastics

Materials processing exercises
20.
 Laminating plastics
21.
 Laminating metals
22.
 Metal coating of metal
23.
 Plastic coating / dip-coating
24.
 Forming plastics
25.
 Forming glass fibre (GRP)
26.
 Spinning
27.
 Beaten metalwork: Cold Working Of Non-Ferrous Metals
28.
 Beaten Metalwork: Forgework (Hot Working Of Iron And Steel)
29.
 Casting:  Sand Casting  (using a wooden pattern
30.
 Casting:  Sand Casting  (using a polystyrene pattern)
31.
 Casting: Lost Wax Casting
32.
 Cupboard doors made of MDF
33.
 Kitchen work tops
34.
 Frame and Panel Construction
35.
 Hand tools for metal
36.
 Hand tools for wood
37.
 Hand tools for plastics
38.
 Metal machining processes: drilling
39.
 Metal machining processes: lathe work
40.
 Metal machining processes: horizontal milling
41.
 Metal machining processes: vertical milling
42.
 Metal machining processes: polishing
43.
 Metal machining processes: grinding
44.
 Metal machining processes: surface grinding
45.
 Metal machining processes: shaping
46.
 Wood machining processes: drilling
47.
 Wood machining processes: routing
48.
 Wood machining processes: planing and thicknessing
49.
 Wood machining processes: bandsaw
50.
 Wood machining processes: circular saw
51.
 Wood machining processes: reciprocating saws
52.
 Wood machining processes: turning between centres
53.
 Wood machining processes: turning on a faceplate
54.
 Heat treatment of metals
55.
 Reshaping metals by casting
56.
 Reshaping metals by hot working
57.
 Reshaping metals by cold working
58.
 Reshaping wood by steaming
59.
 Reshaping wood be laminating
60.
 Reshaping thermoplastics by bending
61.
 Reshaping thermoplastics by vacuum forming
62.
 Reshaping thermoplastics by blow forming
63.
 Reshaping thermoplastics by press forming

Exercises about assembling parts
64.
 Joining metals by soft soldering
65.
 Joining metals by silver soldering and brazing
66.
 The hard soldering process
67.
 Joining metals by riveting
68.
 Gluing wood to wood
69.
 Gluing laminates to wooden sheet materials
70.
 Joining wood using screws
71.
 Properties and uses of adhesives

Mechanisms exercises
72.
 Types of motion
73.
 A socket wrench
74.
 Bicycles
75.
 Windlass
76.
 Belt and pulley mechanism on a drilling machine
77.
 A potter’s wheel
78.
 Pulleys as lifting devices
79.
 Bevel gears
80.
 Rack and pinion
81.
 Cams
82.
 Screws and screw threads
83.
 Making screw threads
84.
 Crank Mechanisms
85.
 Crank and Slider Mechanisms
86.
 Couplings
87.
 Friction

Energy
88.
 Primary production of aluminium alloys versus the recycling of aluminium products
89.
 Primary production of steel alloys versus the recycling of steel products 
91.
 Recycling wood 
92.
 Recycling paper

Other exercises in the KS4 Design and Resistant Materials Technology software package include:

  • design exercises
  • design analysis exercises
  • writing design briefs and specs.
  • quality exercises

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