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Year 10 - Design and technology

Advanced 3D sketching

Product analysis: encouraging healthy lifestyles

Unit Summary

Pupils will analyse products to identify features in the products. They will also identify the materials, material properties and manufacturing processes used to create the products. They will conduct functional tests to collect and analyse data to inform design decisions.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to enhance sketches using tone to show depth and texture.

Key Notes

  • Rendering helps to enhance communication of design ideas.
  • Rendering can be used to show colour, materials and textures.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • render: to add details like shading, texture, and depth to a sketch to make it appear more realistic
  • tone: the lightness or darkness of an area, which helps create a sense of dimension in the image
  • depth: the illusion of distance or three-dimensional space on a flat surface
  • texture: how something feels or looks like it would feel, if touched

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Rendering is just adding tone.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Rendering helps to enhance communication of design ideas. Rendering can be used to show colour, materials and textures.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'render'

to add details like shading, texture, and depth to a sketch to make it appear more realistic.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Rendering is just adding tone. Correction: Rendering should consider tone and depth but also the texture of the material the product is made out of.

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