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Year Group: 7

Term: Autumn Term

Unit Duration: 12 Weeks

Number of Lessons: 12

Unit Title: Desk Tidy (Woods)

Unit Assessment: Design and create a desk tidy using cardboard construction techniques and recycled materials

Fertile Question: How does someone select the appropriate wood for a project?

Key Skills / Concepts / Prior Knowledge that students should have when starting this unit:

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Literacy / Key Vocabulary / Subject Terminology that students should cover:

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Suggested materials teachers could / should use:

• Bitesize Website

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Home Learning Tasks students should complete:

• Product Design Journal 1
• Product Design Journal 2

• Prior Knowledge of design and technology assessed through entry test that will outline key concepts that are already understood and those that need to be developed
• Pupils will have had a range of prior experiences based on their primary school education this rotation is designed to get all pupils to a similar level of understanding

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Key Skills / Concepts / Prior Knowledge that students should cover:

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• Learn the rules and regulations of the workshop and how to operate in a safe manner
• Learn how to collate secondary research and analyse the information gathered
• Learn about a range of primary research methods and be able to use it in order to understand and explain clients’ needs and wants
• How to draw in one point perspective and understand its application
• Apply research and the design specification in order to produce a range of creative design ideas
• Learn the importance of creating a range of design ideas and be able to annotate and discuss the ideas that have been created
• Learn about the origins, sources and applications of wood
• Learn that there are different categories of wood and be able to identify some of them
• Use tools and equipment safely to make a product that matches a design created

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Stretch: Key Skills / Concepts / Prior Knowledge that students should cover:

• Learn to identify Computer Aided Design products
• To be able to use simple CAD tools to draw basic shapes
• Learn to draw in two point perspective using equipment accurately