Year 10 Product Design – Skillsbot
Topic: “Skillsbot”
Year Group: Year 10
Focus: 1. Core manufacturing skills
- Presentation and working drawing skills
What we will be learning
- This project is focused on developing core hand skills and students confidence with using a range of different tools in the workshop
- Students will be learning a range of woodwork skills such as how to make a housing joint, how to use the pillar drill, how to use the scroll saw and the tenon saw and chisel.
- Students will also do pewter casting and develop their CAD skills further by drawing a piece that needs to be laser cut and another piece that needs to be 3d printed.
- Students will also learn orthographic and isometric drawing and rendering skills so that they can present their work clearly and precisely
Why is this important? Where does this link to future/past learning?
- Students often have really great ideas in their head and may even be able to sketch these ideas out accurately and model them in cardboard or paper, nut they also need to actually make the product they design. Therefore, being able to develop hand skills to realise their designs and make them function is key.
- Students will also build their confidence when using different tools and be able to choose the correct tools depending on the work they want to complete.
How will this topic be assessed? Formative and summative
- Formative assessment happens in real time in class with feedback given students as they undertake design activities
- Summative assessment happens at the end of this short project when students submit their design. The assessment happens by comparative judgement and rank order as is the case with all design work. Once rank order is achieved a student will be awarded a grade 1-9.
What make a strong piece of work in this topic, and what can I do to stretch myself in this topic?
- A strong piece of work in this topic is accurate and precise and will function really well
- Modelling and sketching skills will be strong in the student’s sketchbook and anyone who wished to make the Skillsbot would be able to do it because of the quality of drawings that were produced.
- To stretch themselves students should practice their sketching and CAD skills such as TinkerCAD and Onshape and present their skillsbot digitally as well in physical 3d format.
