The Graphics and Design Development package consists of:
- Recording ideas and designs using notes and sketches
- Designing from natural form
- Hazy impressions of an idea
- Design development animation
- Isometric drawing animation and exercises
- Oblique drawing animation
- 1 point perspective drawing animation and exercises
- 2 point perspective drawing animation and exercises
- Orthographic projection
- Parts drawing and cutting list animation
- Rendering exercises (including PDF worksheets)
Safety
- Workshop safety rules
- Workshop safety in detail
- Risk assessment exercises.
The Design section of KS3 Design and Technology also includes the following graphics related design basics:
- line
- shape
- proportion
- use of Divine Proportion in architecture
- symmetry
- form
- function
- colour
- texture
- movement
Learning Objectives
Students will learn how to:
- record ideas and designs using notes and sketches
- develop ideas and designs
- draw shapes in isometric
- draw shapes in oblique (45 degrees)
- draw shapes in 1 point perspective
- draw shapes in 2 point perspective
- make a parts drawing and a cutting list of materials
With regard to safety, students will learn:
- safety rules
- designer's safety responsibility
- risk assessment
- safety rules and defined procedures
- hazard warnings and instructions
- safe materials
- safe storage of materials
- tool safety
- safety features on tools
- safe working practices
- safe working area
- product safety
- to write risk assessments.
To test students' learning, the package contains:
- isometric drawing exercises
- 1 point perspective drawing exercises
- 2 point perspective drawing exercises
- colouring and shading (rendering) exercises
- risk assessment exercises
This product is suitable for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 students.
Note: The graphics animation and exercises package is part of the KS3 Design and Technology and the KS4 Design and Resistant Materials Technology software packages.
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Minimum System Requirements |
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| Disk space: | 2.6MB |
| Platform: | PC. For Apple Macs, use the CD version of the software |
| Minimum screen resolution: | 800 x 600 |
| OS Compatibility: | Microsoft Windows 2000 and later |
| Browser: | Any |
| Media: | Download |
| Unzip software: | Any |
Note: Two versions in one package.
The Graphics Animation package contains two versions of the product. One version has installer software for installing the product onto a computer hard drive. The other version is a CD version. The CD version has autorun files that make it suitable for copying onto CDs. The CD version is intended for schools that have paid for a school site licence to copy the software onto CDs for pupils enrolled at their school (only) and for it to be a convenient way for teachers to take the software into classrooms with an interactive white board.
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
The files in the CD version folder make it easy to select individual files that you may want to load into a VLE.