Brompton Cycle Route
Textiles
Lesson 3
Learning objectives:
• To know what a Gantt Chart is and be able to produce
one.
• To choose an appropriate form of modelling and start
work on your final model.
• To be able to work independently, setting your own
targets and evaluating your progress.
Homework:
Complete a Gantt Chart for your project.
Project overview
To design, make and evaluate a product suitable for use with a Brompton bicycle.
WE ARE HERE
1
Introduction
2
Designing
3
Planning &
Making
4
5
Making
Making
Lesson 3: Planning and making
Today we will be…
• Setting and evaluating our own targets
• Choosing modelling options and getting started
• Developing our designs
• Discovering the Gantt Chart and learning how to produce one
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Evaluation
Setting your own targets
You have a very short space of time to make your model.
Set yourself three targets for today’s lesson to help you manage your time and
work independently.
These may be related to how you will work…
…or they could be tasks to complete…
…it’s up to you!
Extension task: Think about the quote below... Do you agree? Why?
“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is
innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.”
Ted Levitt
Card modelling
Below are some examples of what can be achieved using cardboard modelling.
What other materials could you use?
Developing design ideas
• As you work on your final model don’t be afraid to develop your idea to make it
better!
• You can still make changes until you are finished – just keep an eye on the time.
• Think about: aesthetics, function, ergonomics, cost, materials, target market…
unique
compactness
independence
practicality
everyone
fold/unfold
ease of use
freedom
Homework – Gantt Chart
Completing your Gantt Chart
• List the tasks that you need to
complete down the left hand side.
• Think about how long each task will
take you.
• Colour in the boxes to represent
the time allocated for each task to
be completed.
You should have a diagonal pattern
going from top left to bottom right!
Self-target evaluation
How did you do today?
Look at the three targets you set at the beginning of the lesson.
• Have you achieved them?
• Tick the ones you have met.
What went well?
• What have you managed to do well?
• What have you achieved?
Even better if…
• What could you have done better?
• How will you change how you work next time?
Brompton Cycle Route
Textiles
Learning objectives:
• To know what a Gantt Chart is and be able to produce
one.
• To choose an appropriate form of modelling and start
work on your final model.
• To be able to work independently, setting your own
targets and evaluating your progress.
Homework
Complete a Gantt Chart for your own project.