GCSE Manufacturing
GCSE Manufacturing (Double Award) is designed to provide a broad educational basis for further training, education or for moving into employment within the manufacturing sector.
The three units are:
- Designing products for manufacture
- Manufactured products
- Application of technology
This section will provide case studies and resources, linked where appropriate to each unit.
Competition
The SSAT and Hope Technology are running an extreme engineering challenge for KS3 and KS4 students.
The competition involves working to a real design brief to develop a promotional product that can be distributed at the Cycle Show in London.
Find out more and register your interest...
Making it! DVD
The Making it! DVD was sent free to all schools who offer GCSE Manufacturing in September 2007.
Find out more about this resource and watch video highlights
Thinking about offering GCSE Manufacturing? Order a copy of the DVD from the e-shop.
Ideas and inspiration
SSAT manufacturing lead practitioners are innovative and outstanding teachers, who share their good practice with colleagues in other schools.
Read the latest case studies produced by these lead practitioners for ideas and inspiration to take into your classroom (links opens in a new window).
Case studies - manufacturing
Resources
A selection of resources developed to enable students to connect the work they do in schools to industrial processes in the world of manufacturing.
Latest resource - Desk top clock project
This is a 7 week introductory project for year 10 GCSE Manufacturing students who have no prior knowledge of manufacturing. Templates for each stage of the product design and manufacture process are provided.
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