Year 10 - Design and technology
Identify environmental impact
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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 investigate a context, identify design opportunities and assess the environmental impact.
Key Notes
- Designers use mind maps to explore a context.
- Designers identify a wide range of design opportunities to avoid design fixation.
- Designers consider the environmental impact of design opportunities.
Vocabulary To Learn
- nature: everything in the world not made by humans
- design opportunities: a gap or a need where a new or improved product would be beneficial
- design fixation: considering only one possibility
- sustainability: using resources wisely so future generations can also meet their needs
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Envionmental impact can only be assessed after a product has been manufactured.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers use mind maps to explore a context. Designers identify a wide range of design opportunities to avoid design fixation.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'nature'
everything in the world not made by humans.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Envionmental impact can only be assessed after a product has been manufactured. Correction: Environmental impact can be assessed at every and all stages of the iterative design process.
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- AI to develop ideas Study Guide
- Biomimicry Study Guide
- Equipment and machinery: papers and boards Study Guide
- Evaluate with user feedback: papers and boards Study Guide
- Generating design ideas using SCAMPER Study Guide
- Innovation when generating ideas Study Guide
- Mark out and prepare materials: papers and boards Study Guide
- Materials and manufacturing processes: papers and boards Study Guide
- Parts lists: papers and boards Study Guide
- Plan manufacture using orthographic projection: papers and boards Study Guide
- Product requirements Study Guide
- Proportions and scale: papers and boards Study Guide
- Quality control: papers and boards Study Guide
- Testing and modifications: papers and boards Study Guide
- Time planning: papers and boards Study Guide
- Tools and processes: papers and boards Study Guide
- Using feedback to develop ideas Study Guide
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