Recycled Picture Frame Project and Lessons with a Sustainable Design Theme. RM, PD

Full project to run with Year 7, 8 or 9 students to design and make a Recycled Picture Frame using wood and decorating with sustainable materials. The theme focuses on the 3 R’s and provides a great opportunity to research into being more eco friendly and experiment with a range of different materials. This is a fantastic, engaging and fun project to run for a term for KS3 students. Tried and tested resources, so easy to follow and takes the hassle out of planning!

Context: Sustainable Design
Designers have a responsibility to design products that address environmental issues. Sustainability is a global concern and customers are increasingly seeking products which reflect this awareness.

Design Brief/Task:
Materials are thrown away every day and end up in landfill. The frame itself must be made using a manufactured board, which is less harmful to the environment. To make the frame more attractive investigate using materials that would normally be thrown away and could be reused to make a colourful and eye-catching design. You are asked to design and make a prototype.

This resource includes a series of 10 PowerPoints aimed to provide everything you need, including Learning Objectives, Success Criteria, detailed tasks and step-by-step instructions. Each lesson PowerPoint is judged to be suitable for a 1 hour lesson and includes starters, main tasks and homework.

Lesson 1: Design Brief and Introduction to the theme of the 3R’s and Sustainability
Lesson 2: Writing a Specification
Lesson 3: Drawing in Isometric, crating and colour rendering
Lesson 4: Initial Design Ideas
Lesson 5: Development-Testing and sampling of eco materials
Lesson 6: Developed design ideas using SCAMPER and peer assessment
Lesson 7: Modelling developed design in card
Lesson 8: Planning a plan of make
Lesson 9-10: Practical making
Lesson 11: Final evaluation

Lesson PowerPoints can be amended as required if you feel your student need more time on any parts of the design and manufacturing process.