Manaiakalani Google Class OnAir Lesson 12 - Design Analysis Each Day

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Direct Instruction

Direct instruction for this activity involved the students being round the front desk all together for the first 5 - 10 minutes of each lesson.
On the board each day, a picture of a different product is displayed for the class to talk about.
The questions are given verbally by the teacher and the class talk about the answers to these questions. There is no writing or typing involved from the students. They have to make suggestions them selves or listen to the input from others in the class.

These videos show the direct instruction at the start of each lesson. We spend 5-10 minutes analysing a different product each day. These videos are not all of our sessions, just the first few. As the videos progress, the students find it more difficult and this is a good thing as we are analysing deeper. The first video is shown here and the other three are links that show analysis of different products and at different depths of thinking.

These were the products that were discussed by the students each day.

This feedback is from some of the Year 11 group. We had gone through what I was going to ask them and they had practised what they wanted to say. Then when we filmed, they forgot some of the plan. It appears like I am leading them a little but I am just reminding them of what they had already decided they wanted to say.

Detailed Lesson Plan

Lesson Topic :- Product Design Analysis Team Work
Year Group :-  Year 11, 12 and 13
Learning Outcome	The students will be able to analyse existing products in increasing amounts of depth. The students will be able to give their ideas and opinions in front of the rest of the group. The students will listen and understand the ideas and opinions of others in the class.
Success Criteria Using SOLO	These have not changed much in the last two lessons as we are still doing design analysis exercises which incorporate the same skills and levels in SOLO. The focus of this work has been changing and the depth that we have been doing it has been increasing. Uni structural Multi structural Relational Extended abstract Students can identify the main parts of a design. Students can describe and list the design elements, properties, use and materials used in a design. Students can explain and compare elements of a design idea to show how they work together and the effects that they have. Students can evaluate the work of others and reflect on where design decisions have been made and generalise on why they were made.
Links with the New Zealand Curriculum	Level 2 Curriculum Level: 7 Learning Area: Technology Strand: Design and Visual Communication Achievement Objective: Outcome development and evaluation Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and evaluative practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, and trialling in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation, using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue. Achievement Standard: AS91342
Key Competencies	Thinking - analysing the design based on a specific question or focus. Using language, symbols, and texts - talking about their ideas for the analysis. Managing self - Using the RISE values when doing this work as a whole group. Participating and contributing - Giving suggestions to the whole group. Listening to the suggestions of others. Relating to others - responding to the ideas of others in a positive way.
Prior knowledge	The students have been drawing their design developments for their Product Design project. We have been doing analysis exercises together on the class Google Plus Communities. We have been talking about and using analysis focussed vocabulary. We have made a start on analysing their own design development work.
Lesson Sequence	Session Outline The point of these short sessions is to spend 5 -10 minutes all together at the start of each lesson to verbally analyse a product. The product will be different each day. The focus questions for the analysis will start in the unistructural and multistructural levels of SOLO and slowly build in complexity each day and each product. The outcome is hopefully the students will be less worried about analysis as we are doing it regularly all together and showing the depth that is  needed. Student Activity Teacher Activity The students sit round the front table for 5-10 minutes at the start of each lesson. They look at a different product each day and analyse what they see. Project the product to analyse that day on the main board. Ask the focussing questions for the product that day. What shapes can you see? What forms can you see? What colours / textures can you see? What materials have been use? What properties do the materials have that make it suitable? How is the design used? How is is been designed to be safe? Record the answers that the students have given on a Google Drawing with the picture of the product and share this on the class communities for the students to refer to afterwards. Think about what they are looking at in terms of what questions the teacher is asking them. The focus for the product each day will be different, with an increasing level of depth, so they need to make sure they concentrate on the day’s product and analysis focus. The students are doing this exercise every day verbally, so they need to speak in front of the rest of the group and listen to what everyone else has to input.
Resources	Selection of images of products. Google Plus Communities Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Document - Describing Words
Next Steps	Students need to analyse their own design development work as they produce it. They need to go into enough depth so it is obvious what design decisions were made and why they were made.
Reflection and Analysis
	What went well. We have been doing this exercise everyday for a week at the time of writing this. The students have got used to what we are doing and understand why we are doing it. They come round the front table at the start of the lessons without too much nagging as they are coming in expecting to do the analysis exercise together. They are giving input to the sessions well and are listening to each other in a respectful way. We have been going into greater depth on each product analysis that we have done, and while the students have quite often struggled with the questions that I have been asking them, they have not given up and have offered suggestions. What still needs work. As I have realised recently that there is an issue with vocabulary, I should have been writing up the keywords the students were suggesting as they were doing it instead of afterwards. This would maybe have given these words more importance. We need to try and move the depth of the answers into the extended abstract area of SOLO, as we have not done this yet, so this will mean some modelling from me so they know what I want them to do.

Student Work

Class Google Plus Communities

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3