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Pumpkin Interactive specialise in producing high quality, specification-relevant Design and Technology DVDs for secondary schools and colleges. We provide resources for Product Design, Resistant Materials, Graphics and Textiles courses and cover some of the hottest topics in D&T - the 6Rs, smart materials, and sustainability.

All our teaching resources are developed with the help of expert Design and Technology teacher consultants. We work closely with subject associations like the Design and Technology Association and with awarding bodies. In fact many of our D&T titles are now either endorsedor recommended by all the major UK exam boards, including AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC.

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Sustainable Packaging

DVD: PAL
DUR: 31 mins
YEAR: 2010 / KS 3-5
Product Code: SUSPAC
Price: £45.00

This DVD explores what the food industry is doing to use less packaging. First it looks at the role and function of packaging. It then looks at the challenges of designing reduced packaging that not only looks good, but gets the product to the shelves in one piece. We also see how plastic bottles are recycled into new food grade plastic, before being formed into salad containers. An ideal resource for students studying Food Technology, Graphic Design, Resistant Materials, Product Design, Sustainability and Citizenship.


Endorsements/recommendations

Endorsed for use with the Edexcel GCSE D&T for Food Technology, Graphic Products, Resistant Materials

Endorsed for use with the Edexcel GCE D&T Product Design for both the Graphic Products and Resistant Materials pathways for the topic heading “Sustainability”.

Recommended by AQA in their resources list for their GCSE and GCE D&T specifications


Testimonials

“Provides brilliant, up to date industry case studies, clear and well structured. This type of information is ideal for helping students prepare for the AQA A2 Product Design, Unit 3 Exam Paper.”

Malcolm Cross,
Head of D&T Peter Symonds School, the largest centre teaching AQA A level Product Design

Sustainable Packaging is a superb resource which allows students to have a balanced view of the role of packaging and how it is possible to be sustainable and cost effective at the same time. An essential tool for any student undertaking one of the packaged food controlled assessment tasks!

Brian Russell,
Director for D&T, Dixons City Academy

Suggested exam board specification links

AQA

    
GCSE D&T Resistant Materials
GCSE D&T Product Design
GCSE   D&T Food Technology
GCSE D&T  Graphic Products
GCE D&T Product Design
     

OCR

    
GCSE   D&T Resistant Materials
GCSE D&T  Food Techology
GCSE   D&T

Graphic Products
     

Edexcel

    
GCSE   D&T Food Technology
GCSE   D&T  Resistant Materials
GCSE D&T Graphic Products
GCE D&T Product Design Graphic Products pathway
     

WJEC

    
GCSE D&T Resistant Materials
GCSE D&T Food Technology
GCSE   D&T  Graphic Products
GCE D&T  Product Design

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