Ecological and social footprint
Unit 4 · Common specialist technical principlesTrace environmental and social impact across a product lifecycle. Mining, drilling, deforestation and farming, carbon footprint, working conditions and fair trade, with a 3D life-cycle ring. Click-by-click builds, answer reveals, and teacher notes and answers on every slide.
What this lesson covers
Mining, drilling, deforestation and farming, carbon footprint, working conditions and fair trade, with a 3D life-cycle ring. Click-by-click builds, answer reveals, and teacher notes and answers on every slide.
60-minute lesson, 19 slides. Part of DT Classroom’s GCSE Design and Technology course, taught through an interactive 3D lab rather than static slides alone.
Practise and extend
Also available for this lesson from the teacher resources: lesson slides, knowledge organiser, worksheet.
Exam board coverage
Where this lesson sits in each GCSE Design and Technology specification, as an indicative mapping by DT Classroom (not endorsed by any board - check the current specification before relying on it).
| Board | Specification reference |
|---|---|
| AQA | 3.2.3 Ecological and social footprint 3.3.2 Environmental, social and economic challenge |
| Edexcel | 2.2 Metals: Sources, origins, properties and footprint 3.2 Papers and boards: Sources, origins, properties and footprint 4.2 Polymers: Sources, origins, properties and footprint 5.2 Systems: Sources, origins, properties and footprint 6.2 Textiles: Sources, origins, properties and footprint 7.2 Timbers: Sources, origins, properties and footprint |
| OCR | 5.3 Sources and origins of materials and components 3.3 Wider implications for designing and making |
| WJEC Eduqas | TP1 Design and technology and our world |
| Cambridge International | 1.1 Influences on designing |
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DT Classroom is a GCSE Design and Technology course: interactive 3D lessons, teacher slide decks, worksheets and exam practice, built for pupils and teachers. Exam board references above are DT Classroom’s own indicative mapping, not provided or endorsed by AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR or WJEC Eduqas.