Resources by The James Dyson Foundation
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Cities in the ocean
This project requires students to think about global population growth and examine its effects. It challenges them to think radically as designers and engineers to see if it would ever be possible for people to live long-term in communities on, or under, the oceans. The project is designed to have openended...
Disaster!
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to solve major problems affecting life in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster (such as an earthquake or a tsunami). It challenges them to think radically as designers and engineers, learning...
Energy efficiency
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to design a prototype for a more energy efficient electric kettle. It encourages students to combine what they learn in technology, science and maths and apply it the problem of creating energy...
Improving living and working
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to design a prototype that solves a problem encountered in a living, learning or working space. It encourages students to work in teams to invent and then design engineering solutions to problems or...
Independent living
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to design a prototype that makes an everyday task easier for a person with a disability. It encourages students to consider and prototype ways to extend the capacity of an identified person or group of...
Indoor navigation
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to devise a tool to help people get to where they need to be. It encourages students to experience first-hand what it is like to find their way around an unfamiliar building or facility and use this...
These James Dyson Foundation Product Analysis resources help design and technology teachers to lead hands-on design classes through a series of workshops. The resources can also be used in science and mathematics lessons and for enterprise projects.
In the workshops, students disassemble Dyson products and...
Journey to school
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to design a prototype that solves a problem encountered on the journey to school. ’Journey to school’ is structured to steer students and teachers through a strong iterative journey. By the end of the...
On the move
This project requires students to take on a design engineering task to design a prototype that uses air or wind to make something that could transport people or products. By the end of the project,...
This collection of resources challenges students to think about some of the key factors affecting life on Earth and encourages them to look for design solutions to issues that might seem, at first sight, too big to take on. Each challenge in this collection is presented as a 6 week learning resources, supporting...