Adele Kuan 32002443

Warm Up Device: Year One

Background:
Students are learning about change from heat and how food changes after it is
cooked. Students have learnt about how food changes but not explicitly what is used
to heat up and cook the food. The Year Ones have also been learning about
nutritious food and how they should not eat certain foods raw in health and physical
education and have a farmer’s market in their dramatic play corner.

Design brief:
You need to design a device that will cook food that you have found from the
farmer’s market so that you will not get sick.

Generating Ideas: 10 minutes

Students will have the opportunity to look at different appliances in catalogues. They
will be able to observe ovens, microwaves, induction cookers/stoves and sandwich
pressers.

Project Specifications: 10 minutes

Students will start to design their device and look at the different dials and
modifications that they can make to their device so that they will be able to cook their
food. Make sure that it will be safe to use and illustrate their ideas with these
considerations in mind. They should be able to label their design.

Project management: 30 minutes

After designing their device, the students will start to construct their device using
recycled, open materials. These will include different cardboard boxes, recycled
plastic, recycled cardboard, various crafts material, glue, masking tape, blue tack
and string. With these materials they will have to construct their design making sure
they include each labelled part.

Evaluation: 5 minutes
The students will be able to see if their design functions by testing to see if it can
open/close and if their design was close to their actual construction. They students
will also be able to evaluate their design as they are able to explain how they would
use their device.

Presentation: 5 minutes
The students will present their devices as they will be placed on the top of the
bookshelf for everyone to see.

Task Considerations:
Students will need to be supervised with the use of scissors as they are still
developing the technique of how to hold scissors properly. Also being so young, their
creativity might take them to make something bigger than the time allows.