These websites will provide you with a good range of background material for use in completing homeworks, tasks in lessons and broadening your knowledge.
There are also some links to some useful pieces of free software to help you design things.
This website is Created and managed by a British D&T teacher who has included materials to cover most aspects of the KS3 and KS4 (GCSE) curriculums. It is really useful for finding out about a specific area of the subject such as materials, manufacturing processes or how products work.
Inkscape is a piece of free software that can be used to create files for laser cutting and engraving using the department laser machine. It is a vector graphic program a bit like Adobe Illustrator, rather than a bitmap program like Photoshop or Paint. It can trace bitmap images such as clipart files from the web so that they can be used in your designs.
TinkerCAD is a 3D design environment that works online, so you can use it on any device connected to the web. It can be used to create designs for 3D printing by the department 3D printer machine. Sign in using your school Google account