Lesson overview

In this the final design and technology Key Stage 3 (KS3) lesson, students will apply their understanding of the 6 Rs. The focus of this lesson is to design an ocean friendly product. Students will work in groups to research, design, and pitch. Included are teacher resources which structure students independent and group activities.

Learning outcomes

• Define sustainable design
• Design an ocean friendly product
• Draw your product design
• Reflect and evaluate your product design

Lesson steps

1. Introduction (5 mins)
   Students define what they consider to be sustainable design.
   
2. Sustainable design (30 mins)
   Students choose a product which they will design to make ocean friendly. They research the current product, identify why it is not ocean friendly, design their product, then explain how it solves the problem.
   
3. Pitch carousel (20 mins)
   Student move around the room and listen to other groups pitch their new product.
4. Reflection (5 mins)
   Students must practise metacognition by imagining the feedback they would receive from a seahorse, a retailer, and their competitor.

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Design and Technology Key Stage 3

Design

• Identify and solve their own design problems and understand how to reformulate problems given to them.
• Use a variety of approaches [for example, biomimicry and user-centred design], to generate creative ideas and avoid stereotypical responses.

Evaluate

• Develop specifications to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that respond to needs in a variety of situations.
• Develop and communicate design ideas using annotated sketches, detailed plans, 3-D and mathematical modelling, oral and digital presentations and computer-based tools.

Design and Technology Progression Framework

• DA6 - Understand how to reformulate design problems given to them.
• DB6 - Combine ideas from a variety of sources.
• DB9 - Develop and communicate design ideas using annotated sketches.
• DB12 - Give oral and digital presentations and use computer-based tools.
• MA8 - Select appropriately from a wider, more complex range of materials, components and ingredients, taking into account their properties such as water resistance and stiffness.
• EA5 - Test, evaluate and refine their ideas and products against a specification, taking into account the views of intended users and other interested groups.
• EB2 - The positive and negative impact that products can have in the wider world.