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Year 3

Shell structures: packaging

8 lessons

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  • Critique and evaluate
  • Design
  • Sustainability and climate change

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This unit develops pupils' knowledge of shell structures. They will critique the packaging of a given product and investigate the sustainability of materials, to create a new packaging design considering its environmental impact.

Giving pupils the opportunity to design without making allows for a greater focus on the design strategies that can be used. Pupils will apply their knowledge of manipulating and joining card from the Year 2 'Freestanding structures: playgrounds' unit to investigate and develop knowledge of packaging design. They will create their own user centred design and make a prototype and branding for a specific product. The structural knowledge developed within this unit will aid pupils within the Year 5 'Frame structures using 3D CAD: sustainable housing' unit.

  1. Sustainability and packaging design
  2. Shell structures
  3. Card functional properties
  4. Annotated net sketches
  5. Assemble packaging
  6. Strengthen packaging
  7. Branding packaging designs
  8. Promoting products

  • Pupils have experience of using different joining, cutting and finishing techniques with paper and card.
  • Pupils have a basic understanding of 2D and 3D shapes in mathematics.
  • Pupils have a basic understanding of the physical properties and everyday uses of materials.
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