KS 3 - ELECTRONICS
The Electronics course at Key Stage 3 gives students opportunities to:
- Investigate micro electronics used in every day equipment
- Select and use tools, equipment and processes, including CAD/CAM to shape and form materials safely and PCB construction
- Explore the properties and uses of individual electronic components which include resistors, transistors, LEDs and Integrated circuits
- Analyse products and judge the quality of other people's products
Students are set the task of designing and making, make choices about a product or aspects of its design.
They examine and express their opinions on a number of different circuit designs using the latest CAD technology. They observe, explore and experience a range of materials, tools and equipment associated to electronics. Students complete one project in Year 8 that incorporates electronics – they make a light sensor.
Students can:
- practice a range of cutting, joining, shaping and forming processes associated with a casing
- produce a range of circuit designs using conventional and CAD methods
- use breadboarding techniques to model
- investigate Integrated programmable circuits
- explore soldering techniques
- test and evaluate their product
Students work on a DMA (Design and Make Assignment) where they bring together what they have learned to make an electronic product fit for purpose.
Course Books and Equipment
- A4 sketchbook, A3 Folder, planner, coloured pencils, drawing pencils, pens, eraser, metric ruler, calculator
Events and Visits
Key Dates
Students are given assignment deadline dates at the start of each assignment