Year 3 - Design and technology
Shell structures
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 understand how packaging designs are structured.
Key Notes
- Packaging designs can be disassembled to see how the folded out net has been made.
- Critiquing one product design provides detail about future designs.
- Packaging designs consider how to stack multiple units on shelves.
- Design specifications include new product design, such as a sustainable packaging prototype for biscuits.
Vocabulary To Learn
- net: a flat or opened up shape of a 3D object
- design specification: a list of things a product must have or do
- sustainable: using what we need while protecting the environment, so there's enough for the future
- materials: what things are made from
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Packaging is constructed from lots of separate pieces.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Packaging designs can be disassembled to see how the folded out net has been made. Critiquing one product design provides detail about future designs.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'net'
a flat or opened up shape of a 3D object.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Packaging is constructed from lots of separate pieces. Correction: Packaging is often one piece of material constructed as a net.
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