Transcript The Course - Roundwood Park School

WELCOME TO
PRODUCT DESIGN
With Mr Yule and Mr Zierer
Product Design
•This course was introduced four years ago.
•It involves designing and making products.
•Looking at design and designers.
•Using materials which could include wood, metal and
or plastic to make products.
Your Teachers
Mr Yule – BEd Hons – 23 years experience teaching all areas of
Design Technology
Mr Zierer – BSc Hons Engineering – 16 years in business as an
engineer and 14 years teaching Resistant Materials
The Year 10 Course
DESIGN SKILLS
Looking at designers, consumer needs and designing skills,
drawing techniques and using industry standard drawing
software
(Google sketch-up and 2d designer)
The Year 10 Course
MAKING SKILLS
• Refined through a series of small design and make
projects.
• This encourages pupils to use their creative skills in a
variety of materials and processes.
• They will gain experience with hand tools and industrial
techniques through to machine tools and computer aided
design / manufacture CAD/CAM / 3D Printing / laser
cutting and Pewter Casting
The Year 10 Course
Some examples of pewter casting
and 3d printing
The Year 10 Course
KNOWLEDGE &
UNDERSTANDING
Is achieved by learning about:
• Materials and how to shape and to join them together.
• Processes involved in making a product.
• Design and Designers.
• Consumer needs.
• Health and safety.
• Smart materials and CAD/CAM/CNC.
• Making 3 short highly focused projects.
Controlled Assessment Task
60% OF THE FINAL MARKS
A single design-and-make activity set by AQA. They select one
project from a choice of tasks. This is supported by a high quality
design e-folder consisting of:
•25 – 35 slides of e-portfolio work. (no hand writing)
•Folder and product should be constructed over 45 hours.
Exam
40% 0F THE FINAL MARK
• 90 minute exam
• Section A
30 marks- A design question based on context
supplied before the exam.
• Section B
90 marks- questions based on knowledge
gained in the year 10 and 11 work, and
throughout the KS3 modules.
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Why Choose Product
Design?
Encourages creativity.
Fully prescriptive lessons.
Learn as you do.
Student text books available.
Exemplar work available.
Wide variety of activities.
Challenging and most of all…..Fun.
A Quick Recap
a. 2 year course with GCSE discipline from day one.
b. Year 10 is quick projects in wood, plastic and pewter GCSE starts in Spring Term.
c. Focus on 3D printing/ Laser cutting for GCSE using Google
Sketch up.
d. PD is an academic course with a high focus on design
movements and designers.
e. 40% marks from coursework, 40% from exam, 20% for
making.
f. First choice for students who wish to pursue a career in
engineering, architecture, graphics or design.
Where can a Product Design GCSE
take you ?
A* to B students can go on to take Product Design at A
level.
Thence onto University to read BSc and BA Product
Design.
……or any number of engineering, architecture,
automotive, design and technical BSc courses.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Designing Products – using any
combination of materials including
wood, metal, plastic and smart
materials.
ANY
QUESTIONS ?