Year 8 - Design and technology
Evaluate and refine processes
Collaborative design: tactile toys to teach
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Unit Summary
Using knowledge of timber properties and processes, pupils will work together to design a batch of tactile toys. They will prepare a manufacturing plan and develop their knowledge of quality control, applying this to checks throughout manufacturing to produce the batch within acceptable tolerances.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to write an evaluation and identify further modifications to the design and batch process.
Key Notes
- Designers collaborate to evaluate designs.
- Designers modify products after evaluating.
- Evaluations help to discover if the final design outcome has addressed the original design objectives.
- Design specifications and requirements can be used to support writing an evaluation.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Evaluation: checking how good something is and how to make it better
- Design outcome: a final product or solution
- Modifications: making changes or adjustments to improve or alter a design
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once a final product is complete, no further improvements are needed.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Designers collaborate to evaluate designs. Designers modify products after evaluating.
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 improvements are needed. Correction: Designers constantly seek to improve and develop their designs and products, no product is ever perfect.
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