Technology and Design Revision
List – Year 8
Health and Safety
 16 Safety Rules
 Entering and leaving workshop
 Safety equipment and clothes
 Safety Sign meanings and colour e.g. emergency exit & wear
goggles, yellow and black floor tape.
Electronic Components and Symbols
 LED (Light Emitting Diode, identify +ve and –ve legs)
 Resistor
 Battery
Safe Soldering
 Clean the iron on the sponge
 Don’t inhale the fumes
 Always use the iron as if its hot
Tools and Equipment
 Hand tools – identify tools, there uses and how to carry them.
Files, Try square, coping saw, junior hacksaw, tenon saw, centre
punch, steel rule, sand paper, wet & dry
 Machinery – safe practice using them. Identify emergency stop
buttons, on/off buttons.
- Label pillar drill, sander, polisher.
Cams
 Identify circular, pear and heart shaped cams.
CAD (Computer Aided Design)
 2D design software
Materials
 Wood – Softwood –Conifers –pine & redwood
Hardwood– deciduous – mahogany & Beech
 Metals – Ferrous – Mild steel, stainless steel
- Non Ferrous – copper, aluminium, brass
 Plastics – Thermoplastics – acrylic
- Thermosetting – epoxy resin
Technology and Design Revision
List – Year 9
Health and Safety
 16 Safety Rules
 Entering and leaving workshop
 Safety equipment and clothes
 Safety Sign meanings and colour e.g. emergency exit & wear
goggles, yellow and black floor tape.
Electronic Components and Symbols
 LED (Light Emitting Diode, identify +ve and –ve legs)
 Resistor
 Battery
 Switches – slide switch, push to make switch.
Safe Soldering
 Clean the iron on the sponge
 Don’t inhale the fumes
 Always use the iron as if its hot
Tools and Equipment
 Hand tools – identify tools, there uses and how to carry them.
Files, Try square, coping saw, hacksaw, tenon saw, centre punch, steel
rule, sand paper, wet & dry, G cramp, linseed oil.
 Machinery – safe practice using them. Identify emergency stop
buttons, on/off buttons.
- Label pillar drill, sander, polisher, line bender(strip heater),
vacuum former
Levers
 Identify the load, effort and pivot.
 Examples of levers – see saw, fishing rod, scissors.
CAD (Computer Aided Design)
 2D design software
Materials
 Wood – Softwood –Conifers –pine & redwood
Hardwood– deciduous – mahogany & Beech
 Metals – Ferrous – Mild steel, stainless steel
- Non Ferrous – copper, aluminium, brass
 Plastics – Thermoplastics – acrylic
- Thermosetting – epoxy resin
Technology and Design Revision
List – Year 10
Health and Safety
 16 Safety Rules
 Entering and leaving workshop
 Safety equipment and clothes
 Safety Sign meanings and colour e.g. emergency exit & wear goggles,
yellow and black floor tape.
Electronic Components and Symbols
 LED (Light Emitting Diode, identify +ve and –ve legs)
 LDR (Light Dependant Resistor)
 Resistor Battery
 Switches – slide switch, push to make switch, toggle switch & rocker
switch.
Safe Soldering
 Clean the iron on the sponge
 Don’t inhale the fumes
 Always use the iron as if its hot
Tools and Equipment
 Hand tools – identify tools, there uses and how to carry them.
Files, Try square, coping saw, hacksaw, tenon saw, centre punch, steel rule,
sand paper, wet & dry, G cramp, linseed oil.
 Machinery – safe practice using them. Identify emergency stop buttons,
on/off buttons.
- Label pillar drill, sander, polisher, line bender(strip heater), vacuum
former
Design Process
 Explain a specification
 Explain a product evaluation
CAD (Computer Aided Design)
 2D design software
Materials
 Wood – Softwood –Conifers –pine & redwood
Hardwood– deciduous – mahogany & Beech
 Metals – Ferrous – Mild steel, stainless steel
- Non Ferrous – copper, aluminium, brass
 Plastics – Thermoplastics – easily shaped using heat - acrylic
- Thermosetting – can only be formed once - epoxy resin
Wood Joints – butt joint, mortise & tenon joint, Dowel joint
Finishing Processes for wood, metal plastic.