[Design and Technology] Yr 7 and 9

Tue Nov 15 12:56:54 AEDT 2016

Thanks so much for all that Paula.
We currently have been making wooden clocks with the 7's and whilst the kids love it I feel we need to move on and try something else. The yr 9's are making various boxes using finger joints as well. We have also been making outdoor planter boxes to be placed around the school. These have been a great success. 
The reason I ask about class size is that we have been very lucky in the past and I have capped the senior numbers to 16 and the junior's do wood for a term and then rotate to 3D printing so I only have half the class which is usually 12. Next year we are moving to a new building which supposedly has a larger room but  according to the plan it's not, but we will now be having full classes of 25 which really worries me from an OH&S situation. I look forward to seeing how other schools manage.
Thanks again
Kaylen

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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
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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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