Theme TIME
Research;
- Write - neatly - a short paragraph on time, for example the history of time, its importance to society (ship's navigation), etc.
- Cut out examples of clocks from magazines, etc. and annotate (short notes)
- Types of clocks
Construct - neatly - a spider graph (do not just copy this outline spider graph )
Planning- draw up project and manufacturing plans
Materials For Resistant Materials Project
Materials For Graphics Project
. Card Materials Feather board
Ideas
Come up with at least six different ideas in different materials
Try some innovative ideas such as replacing the hands with thin plastic disks, use of reflective /mirror surfaces, clocks as a mobile, clocks built into models - trains cars faces, etc.
Extra
teacher time may be available to those pupils who demonstrate that they are
willing to work towards a good exam result
THERE ARE
TWO CONTEXTS for you to choose from
RESEARCH CONTEXT A
Timepieces have been used in many cultures and throughout history for both functional and decorative reasons. They often reflect something of the culture from which they originate.
Investigate: Suggest a graphic product that is based on telling the time and will reflect a particular culture.
OBJECTIVE 1
- Investigate timepieces from different cultures and different times in history – make notes and drawings of some of your findings.
- Investigate the different kinds of people who use timepieces, both in the past and today.
- Compare different styles of time pieces
- Carry out a product analysis on a particular timepiece.
Decide on a particular style or culture that you may be able to design a product for and write a clear statement under the heading of DESIGN BRIEF. (Remember that your product is a graphic product and should use appropriate methods and materials.)
THINGS TO DO
- Look in books, magazines or CD-ROM for information about timepieces.
- Make notes, drawings and collect pictures to make a display of your findings.
- Take photographs of different styles of timepieces.
- Look at different styles of timepieces that are available in the shops today. Make drawings, notes and arrange pictures into different cultural groups.
- Investigate graphic products that are made from paper, card or thin sheet materials.
- Talk to people from different social and cultural groups and try to find out what kind of things they like.
Before
you decide upon a design brief, you must be sure that there will be someone who
would like to buy such a product. How could you find that out?
RESEARCH CONTEXT B
Teachers use many different types of visual aids to enable students to learn. Basic learning includes reading and writing, but because digital readouts are now common place, young children have greater difficulty telling the time on an analogue clock. Suggest a graphic product that would help overcome this problem.
OBJECTIVE 1
- Investigate young children – what kinds of things do they like?
- Investigate visual aids – what do they do?
- Investigate how children learn to tell the time – at what age?
- Investigate clocks – both digital and analogue
- Investigate other methods that are used to teach children to tell the time.
Decide on a type of product that will help solve the problem and write it down under the heading of DESIGN BRIEF.
THINGS TO DO
- Look in places like Mothercare and The Early Learning Centre.
- Look in shops that sell clocks.
- Collect pictures from catalogues.
- Look in the library for books on childcare.
- Make drawings and notes on some of the most useful information.
- Take photographs.
- Talk to people with children or playgroup organisers
- When you write your design brief you must be sure that the product that you intend to design and make will be useful and would be able to be reproduced in quantity and sold.