Year 7 Creative Design Overview

Term / Graphics Products 1 / Graphic Products 2 / Food Technology 1 / Food Technology 2 / Textiles Technology 1 / Textiles Technology 2
Fertile Question / Why do graphic designers use CAD? / What are the advantages of CAM? / What qualities does a packed lunch product need? / What qualities does a packed lunch product need? / What the link between hand-sewing and machine sewing?
Decorative Dragonfly/Stafish
Skill / 2D design
CAD
Sketching / Oblique
Applied CAD
CAM + assembly / Basic Skills / Shaping and forming to tolerance / Hand-sewing
Machine sewing
Learning different Textiles techniques
Key content / What does good graphic design look like?
When are spelling errors acceptable on graphic products?
What are the advantages of CAD over drawing by hand?
Why is gridlock and steplock used?
How can the designer ensure that the product is aesthetically pleasing?
What makes these products more, or less attractive to the target market?
What is the difference between serif, san serif, script and stylised fonts?
How should you improve your prototype? / Why is CAM used?
Where is CAM used?
How could CAM be used to manufacture a game?
How should the designer ensure products are high quality?
What is meant by batch production?
How can you produce identical copies?
How should the quality of a batch be checked? / Personal hygiene and kitchen safety
Fruit Salad
Knife skills
Vegetable soup
Heat control
Cheese Scones
Rubbed in mixture / Pizza
Shaping and forming to tolerance
Working and designing to specification
Trial Assessment product
Identification of improvements
Own choice
Assessment product
Identification of improvements
Own choice
Formal written assessment / Expectations what they need to achieve in this rotation.
Why is it important to colour in neatly?
Describe other styles of patterns on Textiles products?
Can you name different hand-sewing stitches?
Learning how to do running stitch, Back stitch and cross -stitch.
Test on spellings
running stitch, back stitch and cross- stitch.
Can you use different types of fabrics to stitch on?
learn how to put sequins on correctly.Using various techniques.
Why is it important to colour in well your fabric piece?
learning to colour using fabric crayons onto the design template.
Health and safety in how to use the iron correctly.
using keywords to remember.
Seal the cotton sample.
Apply different techniques of hand-sewing on the dragonfly/starfish.
Learning how to use the sewing machine with confidence.
sewing round the actual Dragonfly or Starfish.
Peer assessment
Assessment
Opportunity / End of unit assessment:
CAD tools and their uses. / End of unit assessment:
CAM and assembly test. / End of unit assessment:
Cheese Scones / End of unit assessment:
Formal written assessment for chosen recipe and practical / End of unit assessment:
sewing using hand-sewing and machine sewing skills. / End of unit assessment: