Design–Make–Evaluate: Your First D&T Worksheet

A three-page worksheet that introduces the design-make-evaluate process — the heart of every D&T project from Year 1 to GCSE. Page 1 asks the child to write “design criteria” (the rules their product must follow) for a real brief: a lunchbox for a friend. Page 2 is a sketch space for their design with arrows and labels. Page 3 evaluates a finished product against the criteria — what worked, what would they change? This worksheet is deliberately a planning tool, not the project itself. The activity book in this pack provides the actual mini-projects (structures, mechanisms, textiles, food). Use this worksheet alongside any of them.