THE TRANSFORMED OBJECT

Skills: observe, develop a hypothesis, realize the project, verify and transfer.
Area: material technology
Starting point: conceiving and creating an object with a particular performance.

OBSERVATION
We live in a consumption society where objects are less and less repaired. When it does
not work, we throw them away! Thinking about the environment, you decide to give a
second life to an object that you no longer use (a functioning object or not) by giving it a
different use than its initial one.

Glue below 4 pictures of transformed objects that you found at home, at your friends’
house, at your neighbor’s house, on the Internet…
DEVELOPMENT OF A HYPOTHESIS
Choose among the objects the one you would like to transform and define its new use.
Then draw, annotate and explain your project.
REALIZATION
Get to work! Be careful.

VERIFICATION

Test the new use of your object. If needed, add some modifications and test it again.

Test 1 :

The object is working : YES NO

Modifications : ……………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………….

Test 2 :

The object is working : YES NO

Modifications : ……………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………….

TRANSFER
Send an email to olivier.bolmain@ecah.be for us to put your creation on the school
website. It will allow other students to see your creation and provide them ideas.
 Evaluation grid

SKILLS INDICATORS MARK

The 4 pictures are showing transformed

Observation /8
objects

The draft is drawn /3

The draft is annotated /3

Development of a hypothesis
The draft is explained /3

Bonus point /1

Realization The final project is made / 10

Verification The new project is working / 12

TOTAL / 40