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Year 3

Annotated net sketches

I can create a number of sketches to show a range of ideas.

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Year 3

Annotated net sketches

I can create a number of sketches to show a range of ideas.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Designers use rapid sketches to create ideas.
  2. Packaging solutions can come through rapid sketches.
  3. A net can be used to show a final design for sustainable packaging.
  4. Annotating final designs provides information for construction.

Keywords

  • Rapid sketches - quick drawings

  • Generate - to make or produce

  • Net - a flat or opened out shape of a 3D object

  • Annotate - add written notes

Common misconception

Design drawings have to be neat, fully completed and accurate.

Rapid sketches allows lots of ideas in a short space of time that can be developed later.


To help you plan your year 3 design and technology lesson on: Annotated net sketches, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

Have examples of different styles of cardboard packaging for pupils to refer to, particularly those used to package biscuits.
Teacher tip

Equipment

Cardboard packaging, timer or stopwatch, worksheets or sketch/design books and pencils/pens.

Licence

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Lesson video

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Prior knowledge starter quiz

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6 Questions

Q1.
What did Robert Gair invent?
a wooden shipping crate
a paper-cutting machine
a new type of biscuit
Correct answer: a flatpack, pre-folded box
Q2.
Which type of packaging is more likely to be made from corrugated card?
An image in a quiz
a tissue box
a milk carton
Correct answer: a pizza box
a jam jar
Q3.
Why is cardboard more sustainable than plastic?
Correct answer: it is easier to recycle
it takes longer to breakdown
Correct answer: it is made from natural resources
it is made from chemicals
Q4.
Match these techniques of shaping card.
Correct Answer:scoring,pressing a line into card

pressing a line into card

Correct Answer:bending,creating an angle in card

creating an angle in card

Correct Answer:curling,creating a curve in card

creating a curve in card

Correct Answer:cutting,removing or separating card

removing or separating card

Q5.
Which of these is a drawing technique?
mixing
Correct answer: sketching
sewing
printing
Q6.
What is an idea?
Correct answer: a thought
a sound
a smell
an action

Assessment exit quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
What does the word rapid mean?
slow
sketch
Correct answer: quick
idea
Q2.
Why is rapid sketching useful to designers?
it shows all the details of a final idea
Correct answer: it's a quick way to generate lots of ideas
it takes a long time
it makes folding easier
Q3.
What does a net show?
Correct answer: a flat view of a 3D shape
a 3D view of a flat shape
a side view of a 3D shape
the top view of a shape
Q4.
What does annotate mean?
draw ideas
cut out shapes
Correct answer: add written notes
fold card