Year 08 Design Technology
Curriculum:
Project Content:
Topics Studied
Knowledge Gained
- Product Analysis
- Developing A Mood Board
- Design Specification
- Design Ideas – Thumbnail Sketches
- Developing A Final Design
- Practical Workshop Skills
- Workshop Health And Safety
- Using A Workshop Equipment For Quality Control
- Using The Scroll Saws
- Manufacturing Diaries
- Finishing Processes
- Testing And Evaluation
- Understanding the importance of a product analysis linked to their individual projects.
- Developing a Design Brief, Client profile and specification.
- Generating a range of ideas to limit design fixation.
- Workshop skills and using technical processes to ensure quality control throughout the manufacture of their products.
- Finishing processes to develop a high quality product.
- Final Testing and Evaluation including Peer Evaluation.
Practical Work Produced:
Key Vocabulary:
Students will develop a portfolio for one whole project: Calendar Block Project.
- Design Brief
- Specification
- Aesthetics
- Client
- Customer
- Consumer
- Thumbnail Sketches
- Design Development
- Try Square
- Tenon Saw
- Bench Hook
Subject Overview:
Students in Year 8 have two Design Technology lesson each week for 8 weeks.
Students will receive one piece of Design Technology homework on alternate weeks.
Students in Year 8 study one of Photography, Design Technology and Food Technology at a time for a term before rotating to another.
Assessments:
Students in Year 8 are assessed throughout their coursework-based project.
