Design and Technology study guides

A deep-dive WJEC GCSE Design and Technology guide to the core technical principles tested in Unit 1. Covers new and emerging technologies, energy generation and storage, smart, modern and composite materials, the systems approach with electronic components, and mechanical devices and motion, the knowledge common to all three routes.

A deep-dive WJEC GCSE Design and Technology guide to the designing principles. Covers communicating ideas through sketching, drawing, modelling and CAD/CAM, sustainability and the 6 Rs, learning from the work of others and design movements, and investigating a problem to write a brief and a measurable design specification.

A deep-dive WJEC GCSE Design and Technology guide to manufacturing and production. Covers the four scales of production, the main processes for cutting, forming, joining and finishing, the forces acting on structures and how to reinforce them, and ergonomics and anthropometrics, the human factors that make products fit people.

A deep-dive WJEC GCSE Design and Technology guide to materials and their properties. Covers physical and mechanical properties, papers and boards, hardwoods, softwoods and manufactured boards, ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys, thermoforming and thermosetting polymers, and natural, synthetic and regenerated textile fibres, with the selection reasoning WJEC rewards.

A concise overview guide to the WJEC GCSE Design and Technology Unit 2 non-exam assessment. Covers the design and make task, the contextual challenges, the iterative stages from investigation to evaluation, how the work is internally assessed and externally moderated, and how it links to the designing principles.