Unit 3 - Holiday Preparation

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Instructions

For you to be successful you will have completed the following tasks:

1. Completed the glossary worksheet

2. Memorised the Design Process

3. Read through the plan for the year

4. Read and summarised the first chapter of the textbook that is attached to this learning bite

5. Product Design Factors Worksheet

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Glossary

Download this page. You will need to complete this glossary. This are a lot of the key terms that you need to understand for both your design folio and your exam. You can use the internet to search or you can use the file below to help as well, although this is not really in a very student friendly format.

• Click here for the glossary to complete. You will need to print this.

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Exemplar Glossary

This link takes you to a PDF of an exemplar glossary. This is very wordy but you can use it to help you complete yours.

• DT Glossary to use as a resource

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The Design Process

You need to memorise the design process. You should be able to redraw it without having to look at it. Make sure that you memorise this however you best do this.

• The Design Process

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Plan for the Year

Below is the week by week plan for the year. Read this. Make sure you have an understanding of the key dates and what will be expected of you, especially in the first few weeks.

• Click here for file

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Textbook Chapter 1

Read through the attachment of the first chapter. Summarise this using the four headings:

• What is design?
• Who designs?
• What designers do?
• How designers work?

• Textbook Chapter 1

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Product Design Factors Activity

Follow the instructions on the worksheet below and complete this. You will find a product that has been designed in the past 20 years and look at its design factors. This work will be emailed on the first week back.

• Click here to download the file

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Need somewhere to save your work?

If you need to save your work somewhere you can click on the link and save it there. Make sure the name makes sense and remember that anyone can access it.

• Click here for the holiday homework dropbox