This project will develop students' k/u of 3D design processes by
using Clyde architecture and bridges as a starting point to create
an original paper lantern design to market to a venue curator,
local authority personnel (culture/leisure/arts) and local
community for support to be selected for exhibition at a venue such
as The Tramway's Hidden Gardens as part of Glasgow, City of Light
festival. Learners are asked to consider the Clyde waterfront
through research and problem-solve how their paper lantern design
would sit within the chosen environment.
Broad Outcomes of learning
• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced e.g. the design process,
working to constraints (design brief), learning how to use various
materials and techniques e.g. experimenting with paper
• Employability skills enhanced - application of knowledge in a
real situation by being able to follow a brief, by being in
competition with peers and by presenting you finished product to a
selected panel (selling your product also relates to selling
oneself in an interview situation)
• Communication & analysing: critiquing each others work at
middle and end of project
• Researching, planning and sourcing: going through the design
process
• Organisation: presentation boards to show design
process
• Presenting: presenting your work to a panel of judges at the end
of the project
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons
demonstrated by pupil focussed working through experimenting with
materials, at this stage teacher is available for help and support
but pupils would be coming up with ideas themselves
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making
decisions throughout their design unit and selecting which material
best suits their design.
• Learners will also justify their final design to the rest of the
class
• Learners have developed enterprising skills identified as 4
capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports CfE Art, students will work with the visual elements:
line, shape, form and colour
• Relevance of how design is relevant to work and life (everything
that you see around has been through the design process) and how
this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real situation