Mr Fraser wanted to add another function to the boxes to increase the complexity and skills required from the Year 9 students during the design and construction stages. Mr Sullivan suggested putting wheels on the boxes so the Year 1 students could also use them for their forces unit to study push and pull. They envisioned the students tying all the boxes together and towing them like a train around the playground.
In total the Year 9 students spent about 20 hours on the project. They were introduced to a number of tools and processes they hadn't used before such as a pillar drill, hole saw, belt sander, air compressed stapler, jigsaw, the cordless drill, countersink and driver. These skills will all be useful as Year 9 students approach their next project, which is designing and making the set for the Primary School Production of Mr Toad’s Mad Adventures. This includes making the set furniture and the car for Toad.
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The last part of the process was the collaborative design of the outside of the boxes. The Year 1 students came up with a crazy face design that could be applied on the outside of the boxes. This gave the Year 1 students greater ownership of their boxes, which in turn would hopefully encourage them to take care of the boxes and pack them up too. The Year 9 students spent an
hour working with their Year 1 buddies to come up with either sketch or collage designs for crazy faces. The Year 9 students then brought the face designs into the workshop and transferred the ideas onto sticky vinyl.
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boxes for Year 1 that could move easily and be stacked if required would be built, together.
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Early in the school year, Head of Design, Michael Fraser, was looking for a project for students to work on and he thought that working collaboratively with another year level might be something his design students would learn from and enjoy. He met with Year 1 Teacher, Lee Sullivan, to come up with some ideas. Mr Sullivan wanted the Year 1 students to learn how to care for their classroom environment, by packing up correctly and taking responsibility for managing their environment. Up until now, Year 1s had been using standard Ikea boxes for storage but they didn’t easily stack and with this, an idea was born - storage
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