RESISTANT MATERIALS LEARNING OVERVIEW 2010-2011

Spot light project

Students will design and manufacture an aluminium spot light for Autumn Term 1 and 2.
This term they will learn specifically about workshop safety and the properties of materials before sketching and modelling their final design.

Key skills: Sketching (scruffiti, Jack straws, morphing, quick sketching)

Continuation of their spot light project.

By the end of the term students will have completed a variety of creative sketching skills as well as a range of practical skills.

Key skills: Marking out, sawing, filing, drilling, joining, finishing, evaluating

Flat-pack furniture project

Students will design and manufacture a piece of flat-pack furniture which will provide them with the underpinning skills essential to their success in both the written paper and controlled assessment.

Key skills: Rendering, 2D and 3D modelling, using CAD (2D Design, Pro-Desktop)

Development of Flat-pack furniture project.

Students will analyse their 3D models to help them realise their final designs, before manufacture.  

Key skills: Marking out, sawing, filing, drilling, joining, finishing, evaluating 

Kandinsky-inspired clock project.

Students will research the context of their project before sketching and modelling their design. This project will include all of the underpinning theory required for plastics (properties of thermoplastics and thermosetting plastics, sustainability of plastics, plastic working tools and finishing plastics)

Key skills: Using laser cutter, Pro-Desktop, drawing in Orthographic.