Critique 3D eco-houses

Design and technology

Sustainable housing

The TinkerCAD user interface

Modify 3D shapes

Compound 3D shapes

Complex 3D shapes

Manipulating 3D shapes

Exploded diagrams in CAD

This unit introduces 3D Computer Aided Design to pupils.  They will investigate modern architects to understand the techniques and materials they use in sustainable housing.  They will develop knowledge of TinkerCAD to design and present a model sustainable house.

CAD structures: architecture

Critique is always negative, and an evaluation is always positive.

Critique is for fun, an evaluation is for grading.

Critique gives feedback to improve, evaluation checks against success criteria.

Critique is for art, evaluation is for 3D designs.

What is the main difference between a critique and an evaluation?

What’s my favourite shape and my favourite colour?

Have the shapes been aligned and scaled well?

Which of these is not helpful to think about when critiquing a 3D model of an eco-house?

say what you like and suggest something they could change

When giving feedback on a classmate’s design, what should you do?

using criteria to assess against goals or success criteria

a building designed to save energy and help the planet

analysing to see what works and what can be improved through feedback

what you say to yourself when you're done

prepared 3D shapes like cubes, cylinders, and even propellors

What can you find in the Tinkercad shape library?

What might happen if you add too many complex shapes to your Tinkercad design?

save energy and be kind to the environment

Match the tool with what it helps you do in Tinkercad:

Put the steps for giving peer feedback in the right order:

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Critique 3D eco-houses

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.