AQA GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology

Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: D & TFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2019 Build in-depth understanding and inspire your students to tackle design challenges both practically and creatively, with a textbook that delivers the Core Technical plus Specialist Technical and Design & Making Principles needed for the 2017 AQA D & T GCSE. The insight of our author team will build topic knowledge, including the technical principles of materials with which you are less familiar, while focusing on the specialist principles of paper and boards in more depth, to ensure you can navigate the.

Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to AQA GCSE Design and Technology -- How to use this book -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Core technical principles -- 1.1 New and emerging technologies -- 1.2 Energy generation and storage -- 1.3 Developments in new materials -- 1.4 Understanding a systems approach when designing -- 1.5 Mechanical devices -- 1.6 Materials and their working properties -- Core technical principles: practice questions -- 2 Specialist technical principles -- 2.1 Selection of materials or components

2.2 Forces and stresses2.3 Ecological and social footprint -- 2.4 Sources and origins -- 2.5 Using and working with materials -- 2.6 Stock forms, types and sizes -- 2.7 Scales of production -- 2.8 Specialist techniques and  processes -- 2.9 Surface treatments and finishes -- Specialist technical principles: practice questions -- 3 Designing and making principles -- 3.1 Investigation, primary and secondary data -- 3.2 Environmental, social and economic challenge -- 3.3 The work of others -- 3.4 Design strategies -- 3.5 Communication of design ideas

3.6 Prototype development3.7 Selection of materials and components -- 3.8 Tolerances -- 3.9 Materials ma…