Working with real materials safely, and finishing work to a standard.
These are the statements the Design and Technology Year 7 syllabus makes about Materials and Making. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Timber, metal, plastic and textile properties - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Measuring and marking out - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Hand tools and their correct use - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Joining methods - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Workshop safety and PPE - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Finishing and surface treatment - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Quality checks - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Documenting the making process - Materials and Making, Year 7.
Year 7 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Materials and Making are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Design and Technology Year 7 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Materials and Making is module 2 of 3 in Design and Technology Year 7. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Design and Technology Year 7 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.