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The Magazine of Design & Technology Education
Designing and Making K-6
Entire Set of 5 Tapes For $195 $49 each
1. Looking at the Past
Museums and exhibitions now demand the most up-to-date presentation techniques to help them communicate ideas effectively to their visitors. This program looks at the White Cliffs Experience - a new heritage project in Dover, England - and examines some of the decisions behind its development. The designer talks about his ideas for this new way of looking at the past.

2. Puppet Players
The program takes a look behind the scenes of the Biggar Little Theatre near Edinburgh, Scotland and discovers how the Purves Puppet Company prepares for a performance. The puppeteers show visiting children simple ways of staging a puppet show of their own, what the appeal is of a puppet performance and how important the story itself is to the final production.

3. Growing Spaces
This program focuses on a garden designed specifically to meet the demands of children with special needs. It examines some of the special features provided by the designer and asks how she set about her task.

4. It's not all Swings and Roundabouts
This program asks what the ingredients of a successful play area are and questions whether the needs of children are being met. The program focuses on the design of a new range of play equipment and talks to the designers to discover the thinking behind its development.

5. Food Chains
The 1980's saw the rise of huge shopping developments and the steady decline of smaller indiviual shops. This program focuses on the way food retailing has changed and looks behind the scenes of a large supermarket. In particular, the program looks at how food products are developed, tested and evaluated, and follows the progress of a new pizza through this process.