Y7+Peace+-+Technology

22-11-2012

7 Peace Textile Technology

= Here is the rubrics and instruction of DT __ Summative Assessment __, please take a look. =

For your revision, please study the name and the functions of the tools below.
 * Tools || Function ||
 * Hot wire machine || heating the acrylic for bending. ||
 * Laser machine || cutting the acrylic according to the drawings in Adobe Illustrator file. ||
 * Screw driver || used for attaching and screwing the clock movement on the acrylic. ||
 * Protective clothing and safety glasses || used for protection in working process ||


 * Materials || Function ||
 * chloroform || a liquid that is used to stick the acrylic together. ||
 * sandpaper || a piece of paper with rough surface for sanding and polishing edges of shapes. ||

Good Luck!

Evaluation Stage

In the evaluate stage, you need to do 4 things (product test, product evaluation, reflection of my performance in the project and the impact of product).

1)Product test:

Please do the product test according to the product test plan you developed in investigation stage.

2)Product evaluation :

Produce a product evaluation and suggest some ways for improvement of the product making.

3)Reflection of my performance

Produce a reflection on your performance on every stage (Investigation, design, plan, create and evaluate stages), suggest some ways for improvement.

4)The impact of product

write the impact that the product may bring to society, environment and self.

For the good sample of Evaluation, please refer to. Deadline of evaluation and the whole project: 29/11/2012.

Details of process journal

1) You should record down the whole clock creation process in the create stage in process journal

2) You need to provide the date and place of the production

3) You ought to provide photos of the steps making clock

4) At the end, you must provide the photos of the clock front and clock back.

5) If you have done somethings which are different from the plan and final design, please specify it, point that out and explain why you changed the plan or the design. Explain these under the title "Modification to plan and design"

6) Please refer to the example

Create Stage

After you finish the plan stage, you can start your clock creation in the create stage. School will provide you the following materials.

1) Acrylic (different colors)

2) wood

You are given three double-lessons (1/11, 7/11, 14/11) to do the create stage in the Design Technology lesson. On 21/11/2012, that will be your last Design technology lesson and we will do the evaluation in that lesson.

During the create stage, you need to take picture of the production process to do the process journal. There should be at least one picture supporting the process of one step. Don't forget to provide the pictures showing the front and the back of your end product.

Deadline of the Clock Creation: 14/11

Deadline of process journal: 29/11

Deadline of evaluation: 29/11

Plan Stage Please refer to for the instruction of the plan stage Here is the steps of making a clock in the workshop.

The deadline of Plan is 29 Oct, 2012 (After term break) Submit your work in PDF via edmodo please.

CREATE a Edmodo account. Please go to http://www.edmodo.com/home.

Then choose I am student and create an account.

And then go to join Ms. Cheung 7P Technology group in Edmodo. http://edmodo.com/join/9787efd0d8cb252c40fff5d6ba2b1c01

__ Design Stage __ In the unit of clock design, you need to use adobe illustrator to develop your designs. You need to create a colorless version for the draft and develop one colorless version.

When you use the illustrator, 1) you need to create a new file, choose the unit "millimeters" with the width 215.9mm and the height 279.4mm, rename the document as "design 1 colorless" or design 2 colorless). 2) It is a must for you all the create a circle with the width 9.5mm and height 9.5mm for the clock movement. 2a) Choose the circle icon, and then choose ellipse tool 3) If you wish to place the 9.5mm circle (clock movement) in the center of the clock, you can do ths

For the design stage, you are required to 1. Design at least 2 designs of clocks 2. Write a description of the 2 designs and compare them among each other against design specification in a table. 3. Choose 1 design as a final design or justify the design, color it and show it in full dimension. 4. Write a description titled “final design and justification” to tell me the reason why it can be your final choice and describe the final design.

In your design stage, you should include the following things 1) at least 2 pieces of design descriptions ( 1 piece for 1 design) 2) comparison of the 3 designs against design specifications 3) a colored final design in full dimension 4) final design and justification (describe the final design and explain the reason why you choose or modify it as your final design)

Deadline: 10/10/2012

__ Investigate Stage __

Design Brief, Design Specification, and Product test plan

Here come to the last part of the investigate stage, you are required to make a design brief, design specification and product test plan.

Design Brief is presented when a problem has been identified and discussed in detail in research. The brief is a short statement of intent.

Design specification is likely to show 1) what types of materials are preferred, 2) the function of the product, 3) Maximum or minimum dimensions, 4) general shape and form of the product, 5)special considerations or constraints required by the customer.

Product test plan is a plan to describe how the product are tested against the design specifications.

For the details, you may refer to.

Deadline: 26/9/2012

Mood Board and research Now you are asked to set a theme for your mood board to design. The theme can be your favorite food, eg. ice cream; it can be a charity group, e.g Heifer and Watutu. Please find some pictures and place them together to form a mood board for your design. You may refer to the example. You can also refer to for the details.

You need to do a research for the project as well. Please follow the guide below. You need to select the appropriate methods (e.g. website, books, magazine, newspaper, video, journals, textbook, etc. ) in collecting information. You should also show the source of information in the list of bibliography according to

Material Research Guide Plastic and the Environment 1) Introduction to plastic in general 2) types and uses of plastics 3) disposal / recycling of plastics 4) Environmentally - is the use of plastics a good things? pros and cons - your views.

Research and mood board in iBook author format Deadline: 12/9/2012

Cover Page, Mindmap and Introduction

Dear all Y7P students,

Welcome to Year 7 Design Technology this year. Starting from this year, you need to do all your Technology work in iBook and submit it in iBook via email or air-drop.

This year, you're required to do a Design Technology project under a unit "Clock Design". In Design Technology, you are required to design and make a clock. For the details of the unit and task, please refer to the following file.



Class work: Please use iBook author to make the book title, create 5 chapters and do introduction and mind-map in iBook author or iBook development.

In the book title, please provide the following things. 1) Your name ( Given name and family name, eg. Sherman Lee) 2) Your homeroom (Y7 Peace) 3) Subject name (Design Technology) 4) Unit name (Clock Production) 5) School name (VSA or Victoria Shanghai Academy)

For the FIVE chapters, please name them as follows. Chapter 1 Investigate stage Chapter 2 Design stage Chapter 3 Plan Stage Chapter 4 Create Stage Chapter 5 Evaluate Stage

Then, please put your mind map and introduction in Chapter 1. For the details of introduction and mind-map, please refer to

Reminder for class and the assignment Homework: Mind Map and introduction on "Clock Design" Date: 5/9/2012