Year 10 - Design and technology
Generating design ideas using SCAMPER
Polymers and timbers
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Unit Summary
Pupils learn about biomimicry and innovation. They will learn how to use sources of inspiration to create a range of ideas for a product encouraging children to grow vegetables. The pupils will develop ideas and manufacture a prototype. Variation allows for different material outcomes.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use different sources of inspiration when generating ideas.
Key Notes
- Designers use inspiration from different sources to inform designs.
- Designers use SCAMPER to generate design ideas.
Vocabulary To Learn
- inspiration: someone or something that gives you ideas
- stimulus/stimuli: (singular/plural) something that encourages activity or change
- biomorphism: an aesthetic style that imitates nature's beauty
- SCAMPER: an acronym that stands for: substitute, combine, adapt, modify, put to another use, eliminate and reverse. It is a creative thinking tool that helps generate new ideas
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Using sources of inspiration when designing is copying.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers use inspiration from different sources to inform designs. Designers use SCAMPER to generate design ideas.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'inspiration'
someone or something that gives you ideas.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Using sources of inspiration when designing is copying. Correction: When using sources of inspiration, they are usually not solutions or similar products but instead any image or product that inspires a spark of creativity.
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- Product requirements Study Guide
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- Quality control: polymers and timbers Study Guide
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