Year 10 - Design and technology
Testing and modifications: papers and boards
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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 test and evaluate the manufactured prototype.
Key Notes
- Designers test and evaluate final prototypes against the brief and specification.
- Different aspects of the final prototype should be tested.
- It is important to justify proposed modifications.
Vocabulary To Learn
- evaluation: checking how good something is and how to make it better
- design specification: describes what a product has to do
- destructive testing: testing that destroys the material or product
- non-destructive testing: testing without destroying the material or product
- modifications: making changes or adjustments to improve or alter a design
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once a final product is complete, no further iterations or improvements are needed.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers test and evaluate final prototypes against the brief and specification. Different aspects of the final prototype should be tested.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'evaluation'
checking how good something is and how to make it better.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once a final product is complete, no further iterations or improvements are needed. Correction: Designers constantly seek to improve and develop their designs and products, no product is ever perfect.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 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
- Identify environmental impact 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
- 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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