Designing

• For EDEXCEL, you should do 6 -7 A3 pages. It's all worth a wopping 27 marks!

• Getting started, here's a game to play with your class mates - 6-3-5 matrix.

• This first came from came from two fab DT teachers, Rowan Todd and John Lee at Sheffield Hallam University

• Your initial designs need to be creative, realistic, workable, annotated and, most important of all, meet the specification criteria Use coloured pencils to make them look good. Have a look at the exemplars below to get a feel for what's expected.

• Wot! Can't draw? Go to www.designandtech.com ® Subject Search ® Graphic Products to find out how (or alternatively, your teacher could help)

• Now, once you have done all those lovely design sketches, you need to do your Evaluation of Initial Designs against the Specification

• So, you've sketched your ideas, evaluated them against the specification and you're all ready to draw that final, developed design . This is the one that you're gonna make, so don't be over ambitious! You need to include:

• Scale Isometric Drawing
• All drawings annotated fully
• Include large scale, detailed drawings where appropriate
• Consider different materials, processes, working techniques
• Scale Orthographic drawing with dimensions
• Exploded Isometric assembly drawing if you're up for it
• Define the manufacturing method to use
• Evaluation to include feedback from the users, customers, expert

• And last, but by no means least, make a full size model, to make sure that it really is going to be like what you have just drawn! Take digital photographs of the model and include them in your folio. 

GCSE Design and Technology: Graphic Products students

• Include designs for the 2D and 3D elements

GCSE Design and Technology: Systems and Control (Electronics) students

• Include designs for the electronic circuit and package designs

Exemplars

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