Primary Design and Technology resource collections
Our primary D&T resource collections provide a useful starting point for teachers in planning and delivering D&T lessons or in supplementing a teacher’s own planning. They are divided into the main National Curriculum areas of knowledge and include ideas on how to design, make and evaluate a range of products and develop skills used in D&T.
Topics
Designing for sustainability and the environment
Activities and ideas for exploring the impact of design and technology on the environment and introducing concepts like the circular economy.
Electrical systems
Ideas to explore different electrical systems, the materials they are made from and use electrical systems in products pupils create.
Mechanical systems
Resources to support teaching about how mechanical systems work including types of mechanical systems and how they work.
Programming, monitoring and control
These resources provide opportunities to demonstrate and use programming and control systems in D&T lessons.
Structures
Ideas for supporting the design, making and evaluating process by creating and investigating different structures.
Textiles
Activities to support learning about textiles including hands-on, creative projects and the tools and equipment required.
Link to primary engineering
We also have a resource collection of primary engineering resources.
