Learners are briefed to design and make a plastic clock for their
folios. Using the Clyde Waterfront website for research, learners
create a design for their product based on the local tourism
industry. This project develops learners skills in using plastics
whilst providing a cross curricular theme for their learning and
opening opportunities to link with local community and businesses.
The finished products will form an exhibition of work for internal
and external partners to view/judge.
Broad Outcomes of learning
• Skill base and understanding of properties of material are
reinforced through an interesting and challenging topic
• Develop enterprising skills such as self awareness and confidence
building, making decisions, working together and independently,
being innovative, focusing on achievement and success
• Employability skills enhanced: communication, planning,
organisation, time management, researching, sourcing,
contributing
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons
demonstrated by regular feedback sessions which involve the whole
class
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making
decisions about their choice of research and design
• Learners have developed enterprising skills identified as 4
capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports CfE Technology
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on plastics is related to work
and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a
real design brief.