Smart materials/ Technical textiles activity

In this activity you either give a group a design problem (add it to the sheet) or they generate their own design problem. They then have to use the material cards for a variety of smart materials and technical textiles, to solve the problem and justify why on the sheet. The students must draw and annotate their garment design and outline which materials are smart and which are technical. I have used this lesson with Y7 and Y10, but changed it slightly. You can easily differentiate it by coming up with harder or easier design problems. Stress their is no wrong answer if they can justify which properties they want to help solve the problem.