Year 3 - Design and technology
Annotated net sketches
Shell structures: packaging
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Unit Summary
This unit develops pupils' knowledge of shell structures. They will critique the packaging of a given product and investigate the sustainability of materials, to create a new packaging design considering its environmental impact.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a number of sketches to show a range of ideas.
Key Notes
- Designers use rapid sketches to create ideas.
- Packaging solutions can come through rapid sketches.
- A net can be used to show a final design for sustainable packaging.
- Annotating final designs provides information for construction.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rapid sketches: quick drawings
- generate: to make or produce
- net: a flat or opened out shape of a 3D object
- annotate: add written notes
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Design drawings have to be neat, fully completed and accurate.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers use rapid sketches to create ideas. Packaging solutions can come through rapid sketches.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rapid sketches'
quick drawings.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Design drawings have to be neat, fully completed and accurate. Correction: Rapid sketches allows lots of ideas in a short space of time that can be developed later.
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