[Design and Technology] Yr 7 and 9

Tue Nov 15 12:50:04 AEDT 2016

Hi,
Our Year 7 projects are the classic pencil box, a spatula and a small LED
torch.
Year 8 is an engineering project of a tower that needs to hold as much
weight as possible with limited materials, and then make a pixar inspired
touch lamp.
Year 9 make a ukulele.
All the projects are based upon a design brief that increase in complexity
each year. I am happy to share the briefs if anyone emails me. I'm not
saying they are amazing, but am happy to share.

Damien Ridley
Edinburgh College

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From: destech-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Connolly, Paula L
Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:39 PM
To: Design and Technology Teachers' Mailing List <destech at edulists.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Design and Technology] Yr 7 and 9

Hi,
We have managed to limited our DT workshop classes to 20 from an OH&S point
of view. Systems is 25. We hold onto this tightly and one slip of an extra
kid and its all over. We run 1 term of hard materials and 1 of textiles for
7 & 8.
7 is a veneer and acrylic formed set of servers. We use a class set of
formers (now about 10 years old). The acrylic is designed on illustrator and
laser cut. Kids clean up the edges with wet and dry. The veneer design has
to have a relationship to the acrylic, we use about 6 layers of veneer in
the glue up.This is a great introduction to design brief, full scale
orthogonal,card prototypes to evaluate (pair and individual), cutting,
forming, finishing and now new technologies. the kids products are
beautiful.
Textiles is a stuffed toy with a noise, design brief is based on a recent
animation for inspiration.

8 - textiles - screen printed boxer shorts
    Wood - for serving board about 400mm limit- skills.. Design, carving,
laminating, engraving (laser) cutting, shaping, drilling (holesaw)
measuring, finishing. Kids produce beautiful work.. From sushi boards,
animal, fruit and vegetable shapes, serving platters, inlays, complex
patterns.etcŠ The parents hold them in high esteem.. They often will not use
them for fear of marking them. Its quite a good way to use off cuts, left
over wood, cutting up the senior projects that never got finished.

9 - we were making small (about 150x150, box pin) speaker boxes for phones
but the quality of the speaker (without an amp) was less than putting the
phone in a papercup. The kids were too disappointed. So any help with that
would be appreciated. The box can be embellished with pewter casting,
printing, laser engraving Second project is an acrylic stand for a music
player - phone, iPad or mp3, now laser cut but formed as required with
acrylic bar heater and oven. That works well and is a great design brief as
there are so many specification - weight, access to speakers on phone,
charger, on/off, balanceŠ etc and of course the off chance that the cat will
rub against it. 

Would love to hear about more briefs teachers are doing.
Cheers,
 Paula connolly

Co-ordinater Technology Department
Strathmore Secondary College

9379 7999
Strathmore

On 15/11/2016 11:50 am, "destech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Kaylen
Kornberg" <destech-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of
KNK at mentonegrammar.net> wrote:

>Hi all. 
>I'm looking for some help to get fresh ideas for new projects for 
>Design and Tech classes in yr 7 and 9. We are predominantly set up to 
>work in wood but want to get some new projects happening and I've run 
>out of suggestions so just wondering what others are doing. The classes 
>run for a semester with the sevens having 2 lessons a week and the 
>nines having 3.
>Also interested in hearing about class sizes for these levels too.
>
>Thanks  everyone. 
>Kaylen Kornberg. 
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