Year+11+GCSE.

=**__Year 11 design and technology.__** =

During the first two terms of year 11 all students will be working on their major projects. The context for these are now set by EDEXCEL. Within this context each student will have identified a problem that will be solved through design. Each student will design and make a **prototype** product that will be **rigourously tested** to ensure it meets all the **requirements** of the **product design specification** that they developed to guide their designing, testing, development and evaluation.


 * Current year 11. Your Elective portfolio.**

When setting up the pages on your portfolio remember the margin on the left hand side of the page and the page number on the bottom right hand corner of the page. All pages will be presented in A3 format.

Cover for portfolio. 1A3 sheet. This will be a theme/mood board full of visuals and words linked to the context you will be working in. It will also have your name on it.


 * **Page 1.** Mindmap showing the contexts you have explored as you identify a problem that can be solved through design.
 * **Page 2.** Contextualisation, specified problem, brief and a very basic initial specification (this can be incorporated into the brief). Principally text, work will be enhanced if you use some visuals showing/highlighting the problem.
 * **Page 3.** Analysis of the whole problem. just asking lots and lots of questions. What? Why? How? Where? When?
 * **Page 4.** Mindmap about actual problem with an analysis of the aspects of this project that you think are important, these aspects should be in your mindmap, (highlighted). You will offer some explanation as to **why** you think they are important in the analysis. This should include: function, environment, materials, properties, environment, scale, dimensions, users, construction, safety, life cycle etc etc.
 * **Page 5.** Preplanned research. You have to identify what you need to find out to be able to start this project, you should identify what you need to know, why you need to know this, how you are actually going to get the information that you require and say if you will be using primary or secondary sources.