Design Roots 2nd edition is the only Junior Cycle Wood Technology package to offer an integrated approach, with a choice of creative, scaffolded, problem-based projects that combine theory and practice. These projects have been refined to meet the needs of all students in the common-level classroom and the SEC assessment requirements.
Project templates are great: the layout, detail, language, flow of sections, sketches, and, of course, the project examples.
Good variety of activities from self-evaluation to pair work to examination-type questions.
The Design Roots Author Team
Keelin Leahy is Senior Lecturer in Wood Technology and Design, and Course Director for the Technology Education teacher education degree programme at the University of Limerick. She is a qualifi ed second-level teacher and holds a PhD in design-based teaching strategies for second-level education.
Ruairí Farrell is an experienced Wood Technology teacher who has taught in St Laurence College, Loughlinstown, and in St Eunan’s College, Letterkenny. He is currently a JCT Advisor for Technologies.
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