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Year 9 - Product in A Tin - Week 1

This document provides guidance for students on developing a "Product in a Tin" for a GCSE Product Design assignment. It discusses choosing a user profile and defining the product's purpose and function. Students are instructed to research existing tin products and consider UN Global Development Goals for inspiration. The document also outlines material categories and provides tips for creating unusual or stand-out design solutions. The task for the lesson is to research tin products, identify a user and purpose, consider materials, and write a product specification.

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Year 9 - Product in A Tin - Week 1

This document provides guidance for students on developing a "Product in a Tin" for a GCSE Product Design assignment. It discusses choosing a user profile and defining the product's purpose and function. Students are instructed to research existing tin products and consider UN Global Development Goals for inspiration. The document also outlines material categories and provides tips for creating unusual or stand-out design solutions. The task for the lesson is to research tin products, identify a user and purpose, consider materials, and write a product specification.

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LESSON 1

• Learning Intention: Key Words:


• To be able to understand the task given.
• To get an insight of what GCSE Product design may look like Creativity
• Success Criteria: User profile
• Research into your product. Techniques
• Complete a specification Design

Starter Qualities
Are you considering GCSE Product design ? Imagination
• You are to create a ‘Product in a Tin’ made using 2 or more materials you can
find from home.
• It must be designed for a particular user and have a specific purpose/function.
• The product has to fit in a tubular tin that is the same size as a snack sized
Pringles tin.
The design brief says your product must have user. A user is the person who will use the product you have made.
When designing you will have to think about the things they like as well as what their needs are. You will have to think about
how these things will influence the design of the product, the materials used, and things like colour choices. Examples of
users might be:

• A person from a particular age group e.g. child, grandparent


• An animal or its owner
• Sports person e.g. swimmer, runner, footballer
• Someone at work e.g. bus driver, fire fighter, paramedic,
policeman, shop assistant
• Someone doing their hobby e.g. musician, photographer
• Someone going to an event e.g. traveller, holiday maker,
festival goer
• Think of a more unusual user e.g. an alien, a circus act, a zoo
keeper, a superhero Tip: Lots of entries are for teenagers or young children. Can you think
of a more unusual user that will make your product stand out from the
crowd? What about designing something for a fire fighter or an
astronaut?
The product function and purpose refers to what the
product does and when it might be used. Some
examples might be:

• To protect something
• To aid communication
• To carry something
• To display something
• To improve someone’s quality of life
• To help someone relax
• To help stop someone from losing something
• To help someone learn something
• To promote something e.g. a charity
• Any other purpose/function you can think of! Tip: Give as much information as possible on your entry
form about the function of product to help
judges understand it. Try and make the function of your
product unusual so it stands out from the rest.
1. No poverty
2. Zero hunger
3. Good health and well being
4. Quality education
5. Gender equality
6. Clean water and sanitation
7. Affordable and clean energy
8. Decent work and economic growth The United Nations Global Development Goals were
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure established in 2015 with the goals aim to end poverty,
10. Reduced inequalities protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.
11. Sustainable cities and communities
12. Responsible consumption and production Could you use maybe 1 or 2 of these goals as a starting
13. Climate action point to give your product a solid function/purpose/user
14. Life below water and make a difference to the world.
15. Life on land
16. Peace, justice and strong institutions
17. Partnerships for the goals
The product must include a material from at least 2 of these categories. Any
combination of 2 materials can be used as long each one is from a different
category. Any amount of each material is used and one can be used much more
than the other.

Categories of D&T materials are:


Wood
Metal
Plastic
Textiles
Paper and board
Any material you have access to at home
Think about different users and what their needs might be and what product you might make to meet these needs. Why not do
some research and ask a range of users about products they use or would like to help you make your decision? Don’t forget
that whatever product you make has to fit into the tin. The following list are ideas of example products that might fit into the
tin size given:
• Keyring
• Torch
• Notebook
• Ear phone holder
• Fidget spinner
• Jewellery
• Clothing
• Bag
• Toy or game Tip: Think about the types of products everyone else
• Hat will enter. How will you make your product stand
• Anything else that will fit into the tin! out from the crowd?
• Why not use unusual materials such as these recycled plastic
or metal foil sweet wrappers?
• What about using a smart material such as thermochromic
pigments?
• Research products in a tin that are on sale in the shops. How
might they inspire you?
• Use materials in an unusual way
• Use a variety of different techniques
• Make sections of the product interactive e.g. hidden sections, • Could you make a product that comes apart to create a
bits that light up, bits that change colour using smart materials flat pack?
• Make the shape of the product unusual
• Could you make a product that folds up to fit into the tin?
• Use original ideas that are your own rather than copied logos
• Could you make a product made up of different items?
Once you’ve decided your user group start looking
for inspiration for your product.

• Look at existing products on the market that come


packaged in a tin.
• Look into products that your user group might
like/want.
• What type of product you could potentially could
make.
Week 1 – Todays task

Example
A design specification is a list of criteria a
product will address. Using the brief as a
starting point for research, a specification can
be written when more facts are known.
Information needs to be found through
research to help produce early design
solutions and improvements.
Example of
page 1 in GCSE
form
Todays Task -
• Research into existing products that come in a tin.
• Think about the user for your own product.
• Decide on the purpose and function of your product
• What Global goal does it fit into ?
• Type of product you might like to consider making
• What materials you will consider making it with.

• Write the Specification.

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