Year 3 - Design and technology
Sustainability and packaging design
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 compare a range of packaging designs.
Key Notes
- Critiquing a range of existing products provides valuable insights for future designs.
- Personal taste in design is shaped by expressing likes and dislikes of existing products.
- Ways to make packaging as sustainable as possible: reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Vocabulary To Learn
- packaging: used to wrap, cover or protect a product
- materials: what things are made from
- critique: to discuss strengths and weaknesses
- sustainable: using what we need while protecting the environment, so there's enough for the future
- environment: the living world around us
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Critiquing is negative and criticising.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Critiquing a range of existing products provides valuable insights for future designs. Personal taste in design is shaped by expressing likes and dislikes of existing products.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'packaging'
used to wrap, cover or protect a product.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Critiquing is negative and criticising. Correction: Critiquing involves looking at the positive and negative aspects of a product.
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