Y8+Trust+-+Technology

30-11-2012

Y8 Trust Food Technology



Evaluation Stage

Please do the product test according to the product test plan you developed in investigation stage. Produce a product evaluation with data generated from product test and reflection on your performance on every stage (investigate, design, plan, create and evaluate) suggest some ways for improvement. Finally, write the impact that the product may bring to society, environment and self.

In your evaluation, you need to include

1) Product test results (Data must be generated)

2) Product evaluation (evaluate the success of product, especially evaluate the success of the product against design specification)

3) Performance Reflection in all the stages in design cycle (pros, cons, improving ways)

4) Impact of the product

Deadline of the evaluation and the whole project: 14/12/2012

On 16-11-2012, 8T students should polish the pendent with sand paper. When you finish the polishing, please do the process journal.

Create stage

Here comes to the create stage, you are given 3 double-lessons (2/11, 9/11, 16/11) on making the final product according to your plan. Please bring the materials you may need. You should also record the whole process on making the pendent in create stage in process journal.

Details of process journal

1) You should record down the whole pendent production 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 pendent

4) At the end, you must provide the photos of the pendent front and pendent 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

Deadline of final product: 30/11 Deadline of process journal: 30/11 Deadline of evaluation: 7/12

Plan Stage

Now you need to do the plan stage for the creation of pendent. For the details and templates, please refer to.

The deadline is 2/11/2012 and submit your work in PDF to edmodo before the deadline. The group code is 8jzrcr. For the details of submission and sign up, please refer to Create a Edmodo student account and do the homework submission

Design Stage

For the design stage, you are required to

1. Design at least 2 designs of pendant.

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 2 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: 11/10/2012

__ 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 of the design brief, design specification and product test plan, please refer to.

Deadline: 21-9-2012

Research Dear all 8T students,

This week, your are required to do the mood board and material research. For the details, please refer to.

Please finish and submit the mood board and material research on 14/9/2012.

Cover Page, Mindmap and Introduction

Dear all 8T students,

Welcome to Year 8 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 "Pewter Pendant ". In Design Technology, you are required to design and make a pendant. 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 (Y8 Trust) 3) Subject name (Design Technology) 4) Unit name (Pewter Pendant) 5) School name (VSA or Victoria Shanghai Academy)

For the FIVE chapters, please name them as follows. Chapter 1 Investigate stage Section 1.1 Introdcution Section 1.2 Mindmap Section 1.3 Mood Board Section 1.4 Research Section 1.5 Design Brief and Specification Section 1.6 Product test plan Chapter 2 Design stage Section 2.1 Design 1 Section 2.2 Design 2 Section 2.3 Final Design Chapter 3 Plan Stage Section 3.1 Production Plan Section 3.2 Timeline Chapter 4 Create Stage Section 4.1 Process journal Chapter 5 Evaluate Stage Section 5.1 Product test result Section 5.2 Product Evaluate Section 5.3 Performance Reflection

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

For the tools, we are going to use aluminum, Scroll saw machine, coping saws, file and abrasive paper to make the Pendant.

Reminder for class and the assignment Introduction, Mind Map and Mood Board (submit in iBook author) Due Date: 7/9/2012