Finding real problems around you
Metal Technology · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How to run a problem walk around the school and shopping centre, and how to write down what you find so that it can become a design brief.
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- 6 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- What a design-and-make project is
- Finding real problems around you
- Choosing which problem to solve
- Writing the design brief
- From brief to specification
- Sketching three different ideas
- Choosing the best idea
- The working drawing
- Choosing the metal for each part
- Using local and recycled material
- The bill of materials and costing
- Planning the order of operations
- Planning for safety
- Marking out the project
- Cutting and shaping the parts
- Joining the parts
- Cleaning and protecting the item
- Testing and evaluating the project