ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts that are discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. This book is for all primary school teachers and trainee teachers who want to add new skills and ideas to their teaching repertoire. The ideas that we propose for lessons aim to be engaging, fun and practical to carry out in a primary school setting. An overview of the Design and Technology (D&T) National Curriculum (2014) is provided along with suggestions for how it could be covered across the primary school years. It contains a chapter on each of the following D&T units: the design cycle, cooking and nutrition, structures, textiles, mechanisms, electronics, IT control and monitoring. A range of possible lesson ideas are provided, which are accompanied by two tried and tested half term unit plans, that follow the structure of the design cycle.
