Craft design on a tourism theme

Pupils are briefed to design and make a plastic clock for their folios. Using the Clyde Waterfront website for research, pupils create a design for their product based on the local tourism industry. This project develops pupils skills in using plastics whilst providing a cross curricular theme for their learning and opening opportunities to link with local community and businesses. The finished products will form an exhibition of work for internal and external partners to view/judge.

Outcomes of learning

• Skill base and understanding of properties of material are reinforced through an interesting and challenging topic
• Develop enterprising skills such as self awareness and confidence building, making decisions, working together and independently, being innovative, focusing on achievement and success
• Employability skills enhanced: communication, planning, organisation, time management, researching, sourcing, contributing
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons demonstrated by regular feedback sessions which involve the whole class
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about their choice of research and design
• Pupils have developed enterprising skills identified as 4 capacities of CfE

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports 5-14 Environmental Studies
• Relevance of how curriculum topic on plastics is related to work and life and how this subject knowledge is put into practice in a real design brief