Year 10 Modelling with Corrugated cardboard

Both year 10 Product Design groups have been learning how to model with corrugated card this week.

Corrugated card is a great material for quick, accurate robust models and the groups were shown how to cut/score and glue it to create an accurate representation of the speaker designs.

They all found it challenging it first but quickly became more confident and each glued joint got neater as they went on.

They handled the tools accurately and managed their health and safety well.

They were surprised to see that companies like Dyson use large amounts of cardboard modelling at the concept stage of design.

You can find out more about modelling techniques at http://www.judepullen.com/designmodelling/ 

SCAREd yr 9 designers.

Year 9 spent today's lesson improving their ideas for phone holders. They were introduced to SCARE - a system used to help them focus on exploring their ideas even further:

Scale - alter the size

Change - the shape

Adapt - by adding extra features

Rearrange- by swapping bits around

Eliminate - reducing clutter

It was hard work, but they all agreed that their designs were better by the end of the lesson.

Next week they will be using CAD to draw their designs ready for laser cutting in acrylic.

Collaborative Brainstorming

The AS Product Design group explored their thoughts on a design challenge using the whiteboards to record their thoughts and ideas.

Year 10 electronics

10B started their speaker project today. Working in pairs and using a PowerPoint guide they started to solder the PCBs with little to no help from me! Great progress today :)

Doodle Wall

The DT Doodle Wall went live this week and was a big hit with pupils.

The first challenge was to design how watches will look in twenty years time.

Later in the week Mr Mistry's AS group used to generate ideas for each other's Product Studies.

The doodle wall was an old whiteboard that the school was throwing out. In DT we always try to re-use whatever we can! 

10B Art Deco Jewellery

10B put the finishing touches to their Art Deco jewellery today. Here are their finished products.

Iterative Design with Year 9

Year 9 Product Designers have been hard at work this week developing ideas using card models. The aim was to deal with a small improvement on each model. These little changes add up to a significantly improved ideas!