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Unit: GoogleSketchup Year:Strand:
Description:Why teach this unit?
Children will experience 3dmodelling – an applicationused in industry forarchitecture and design – seeexamples This unit can be extended asthere is always somethingnew to learn with Sketchupand it lends itself greatly tocompetitions.Children can downloadSketchup at home and socarry on their learning there This unit links with digitalimage software work andwork on google earthIt has curriculum links withGeography, art, design andtechnology and History, e.gchildren could create a‘Round House’
Techniques:
Drawing 3d modelsExporting between Sketchup andGoogle Earth
Process:
To create a navigable model
Concepts:
To know that modelling allows us totest out ideas quickly andeffectively.
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National Curriculum Statements.
2 Pupils should be taught:a how to develop and refine ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganisingtext, tables, images and sound as appropriate4 Pupils should be taught to:a review what they and others have done to help them develop their ideasb describe and talk about the effectiveness of their work with ICT, comparingit with other methods and considering the effect it has on others [forexample, the impact made by a desktop-published newsletter or poster]c talk about how they could improve future work.
Outcomes
Children will be confident in creating 3D buildings in Googleskecthup They will be bale to export work in sketchup into google earth andexport 2d images of their models into graphics or publishingprogrammes They will be aware of how 3d modelling is used by architects tocreate fly-through models They will have produced a number of models in Sketchup and beable to use this tool for work in other subjects
PreviousLearningChildrenwill havehadexperienceof drawingin 2d usingpaintprogrammes.They willneed to beknowledgeable inwordprocessingand bequippedResourcesGoogle sketchupSkecthup training videosHelp sheetsOther web links
A 3D Model of the new Bus garage at Swansea
Teachers TV programme featuring Sketchup andother freeware
Download Page for Google Sketchup 7.1 and above
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