I have discovered that the students enjoy learning the key skills they need in order to be able to do their design work if we do challenges. This is the same for the Year 7 students up to Year 10's.
This week, my Intermediates have been doing some skills challenges ready for design work when we come back after the holidays.
The first skill I wanted them to get was overlapping shapes, using holes and grouping.
So the challenge was to make a moon shaped pendent from 3 cylinders.
The next one was a combined challenge. Joining a square and 2 cylinders together, lining them up with the align tool.Making the same shape as a hole through the first one.
Using workplanes to put their initials on the side of the whole thing.
I did these two challenges first on the board while they watched. They then did them with no help form me.
The last challenge was just a list of instructions on the board that they had to follow.
- A house with a roof
- A door that goes into the house
- Two windows
- A green base underneath as grass
- Two trees
The fabulous conversations going on while they did this last one were great. They were helping each other, explaining how to do the skills, moving round and showing each other how do do elements of the work. They were all totally focussed.
I asked them to take some screenshots. Here are some of their creations. I love the extras they started putting in.
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