PBL4C Context Design Template
PBL4C Context
Duration: 4-5 hours
Recommended Level: Middle School
Title: Creative Packaging Design
Synopsis: Brunei have produced new products. The Industrial designers are facing a great deal of
challenges that are marketplace and making products sustainable.
Model:
Context:
CASES:
Scenario:
Creative
Packaging
Design
- each booth is a case
Exhibiting and Marketing
Your Designs
Buying of Material for your
Packaging Order
Context Problem:
You work in a creative design division in a world renowned multinational company based in Lambak Kanan
East, Brunei. The company designs packaging boxes to meet the demand of consumers and industries.
With the ever changing products of various sizes and shapes being churned out by the consumer industries
to meet the insatiable demands, you need to work dynamically and synergically to supply these
packagings.
You may find packaging produced by warm hearts can produce fantastically marvelous packaging able to
touch the hearts of the consumer-recipients.
There are 5 divisions in the company catering specifically to the following industries:
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Cosmetic products
Medical products
Food products
Sports products
Souvenir & gift products
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The Cases/Scenarios
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The Cases/Scenarios
Some samples of what your company produces.
Case: Exhibiting and Marketing Your Designs
Your company, under its corporate social responsibility (CRS) & sustainable environment policy, puts
emphasis on the use of recycled material. An expo is being held in Brunei this year, and your company is
participating in the exhibition. Design various types of boxes made from recycled materials appealing to
clients who are environmentally conscious. Display and market your designs for the potential clients &
visitors to the exhibition.
Scenario : Buying of Material for Your Packaging Order
A big company likes one of your packaging that your team has designed. The company has placed an
order of 1000 units of that packaging. You need to calculate how much of the recycled material to buy to
start production of the boxes. The material comes in various sizes following the standard paper sizes.
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The 4 Core Areas of Learning
1. Mathematics & Other Content Area:
2. Multidimensional Skills:
1) 2D, 3-D
1) Discussing
2) Geometrical shape
2) Drawing
3) Practical Nets – the need to include flaps
3) Calculating
4) Surface Area
4) Visualizing
5) Optimization
5)
6) Symmetry
7) Measurement
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3. Thinking Processes / Appropriate Thoughts:
4. Universal Harmonious Values:
1) Creativity
1) Sustainable for company & environment
2) Higher order thinking
2) Green environment
3) Transportation
3) Brunei art & culture
4) Protection
4) Halal packaging
5) Storage
5)
6) Relate to real life
7) Suitability of wrappings – e.g. food products
should avoid direct packaging using recycled
materials
8)
Resources:
1. Websites
2. Library books
3. Actual sample packagings
4.
Materials Preparations:
1) Manila card
2) Ruler
3) Compass set
4) Colour pencil
5) Ropes
6) Gum
7) Cellophane tapes
8) Scissors
9) Pen knives
10) Assortment of cardboards
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Teachers’ Notes:
Guide only when needed. Too much guidance impedes creativity. Too little impedes progress.
Each exhibition booth is a case. If there are 9 groups, then there are 9 exhibition booths therefore 9
different cases. And a common scenario for all the cases. As a result, the scenario is not ‘numbered’
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Assessment Form
0
Improve
20
40
Fairly
60
Good
Items
1. Brunei art & culture
2. Sustainable development
3. Making sense in real life
4. Harmonious peaceful value
5.
Assessment Focus on Mathematics
Items
1. 2-D and 3-D
2. Symmetry
3. Surface area
4. Net
5. Optimise
6. Product shape
7. Box shape
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80
Excellent
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Title: Creative Packaging Design
The Context
Facts/Information
(discussing &
harmonizing)
Need to know
(thinking, discussing &
searching)
Possible Solution
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Decide on the best
solution & what action to
take?
Resources