Slippers

Year 6

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What are slippers?

What are they used for?

Who uses slippers?

What are the most important properties of slippers?

What are slippers made from, and what function does each part have?

Part / Function

Draw and label a diagram of the different parts of a slipper that you have deconstructed below.

How many different styles of slipper can you think of? Make a list or a drawing of them below.

List some questions to ask people about the type of slippers they prefer below.

Now think which of those questions would help you the most, as a slipper designer, to design a fantastic pair of slippers.

Decide how many people you need to ask and how you are going to record your results, (this may be a frequency table or a bar chart for example). Note your ideas below.

Question asked:

Results:

What did you find out from your results?

How will this affect your slipper design?

Design brief

You must design and make a pair of slippers for somebody of your age. You will need to think about several things. Make some notes below each heading.

What materials will I need, (make sure that these are available at school!)

I will make sure that the slippers fit the person I am designing them for by

I will use the research I have done by

When my slippers are finished, I will know that I have met the design brief by checking against these success criteria:

Designs for my slippers

Designs for my slippers (continued)

The design I have chosen to make because it fits the design brief best is

The stages of making my slippers will be: (draw a flow chart below)

Slippers Diary

This section is for noting what you have done each day, including anything that went really well, didn’t go as planned etc.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5 (place a photograph of your finished slippers here)

Now that I have finished my slippers, how well have I met my design brief? (Think about your success criteria)

If I was to design and make a pair of slippers for somebody my age again I would

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