STEM Design & Mod (Period 6) Assignments
- Instructor
- Mr. Campbell Nimick
- Term
- 2019-2020 Trimester 3
- Department
- Electives
- Description
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Students discover the design process and develop an understanding of the influence of creativity and innovation in their lives. They are then challenged and empowered to use and apply what they’ve learned using Autodesk and designing for production.
Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Last Academic Week informatio
Last Academic Week information
Instructions
Short video with information for the last week.
The following is the grade policy for the STEM for the 3rd trimester. Please check your grade on aeries. Make up assignments will be collected until June 5th. If you wish to redo an assignment to improve your grade. Please contact me directly.
A = 90-150%
B = 80 -89.99%
C = 70-79.99%
Cr =50 -69.99%
NC- 0-49.99%
NM - Agreement with teacher based in individual situation.
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Prototype Cardboard Furniture
Week 5- Building a prototype
Instructions
Construct your small scale cardboard furniture. Please watch the video on how to make a small prototype of your furniture.
Please only use a knife with parent approval.
Equipment.
Cardboard
Exacto Knife, Box knife or Scissors.
Glue..if needed
Ruler
Pencil
Pen for marking folds.
Look at the pictures of my small scale table.
Construct your furniture in small scale. Take some pictures. Get your face in one. Upload to TEAMS
Reference materials
How to make Cardboard Furniture Prototype
Prototype.jpg
Iso View.jpg
Student work
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Wk 4 Sketches of your Cardboard Design
Wk 4 Sketches of your Cardboard Design
Instructions
Watch the video lesson for how to turn your Design idea for a piece of Cardboard Furniture into working drawings.
Scan and upload your sketches or Upload a picture.
Reference materials
Orthographic grid paper.pdf
How to Sketch your Furniture Design in Iso and Orthographic
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Wk 4 Sketches of your Cardboard Design
Wk 4 Sketches of your Cardboard Design
Instructions
Watch the video lesson for how to turn your Design idea for a piece of Cardboard Furniture into working drawings.
Scan and upload your sketches or Upload a picture.
Reference materials
Orthographic grid paper.pdf
How to Sketch your Furniture Design in Iso and Orthographic
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Wk 4 Assignment 1: Isometric Sketch of your Cardboard Furniture.
Wk 4 Assignment 1: Isometric Sketch of your Cardboard Furniture.
Instructions
Sketching your design idea is very important. It gives you time to work out creative ideas and also gives your client an idea of what your are making.
Cas Holman is a dynamic highly regarded young designer who makes toys and playground structures.
Watch this short video and notice how much she sketches and makes mini models in her workshop.( 6 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL1n6LuUIcQ
(If you are interested in what she does, there is a whole show about her on Netflix. Check it out. Extra if you are interested: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cas-holmans-search-for-the-ideal-playground, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDE7A68hVaw
1. Look back at your Design Brief of the piece you selected
2. Draw an isometric sketch of your cardboard furniture piece. .
3. Print the Iso graph paper PDF at the bottom to work on.
If you cannot print it, you can draw an isometric grid, but printing is faster.
Your sketch does not have to be perfect, but try your best.
Use your Isometric sketch practice to help out or look at the slide show.
Watch the video importance of sketching.
4. Take a picture of your sketch and Upload
Reference materials
1.4.3.A SketchingPractice.pptx
isometric-grid-paper.pdf
Importance of sketching in Design-----https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyW4NI9znE
Student work
None
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Orthographic Projections
Instructions
Watch the video on how to complete the Orthographic Projection Hand Out. All patents require an Orthographic Projection as it shows true height, width and depth and would allow someone to reconstruct the object. However most items are sketched in Isometric to show a real life view. It is important to be able to move from Isometric 3D to Orthograohic 2D views on paper and in your head. This assignment will help you understand how to shift.
Reference materials
Orthographic Views Video
Student work
1.4.4.A OrthographicProjection - Covid.docx
Points
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Cardboard Furniture- Week 3 Lesson #3
Instructions
Sketching Practice- Please Watch the attached video Sketching techniques You will need a pencil, ruler and Isometric paper.
Reference materials
1.4.3.A SketchingPractice.pptx
Orthographic grid paper.pdf
Perspective and Orthographic Drawing Video
Student work
1.4.3.A SketchingPractice.docx
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Cardboard Furniture- Week 3 Lesson #2
Instructions
Sketching Practice- Please Watch the attached video Sketching techniques You will need a pencil, ruler and Isometric paper.
Reference materials
isometric-grid-paper.pdf
1.4.3.A SketchingPractice.pptx
Tutorial Part 1 Thumbnail and Isometric
Student work
1.4.3.A SketchingPractice.docx
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Language of Sketching
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Cardboard Furniture Week #3 Lesson 1
Instructions
This week we will be looking at Sketching Techniques and you Furniture Design Brief.
5/05 Language of Sketching Hand out attached for different types of sketching - read and answer the quiz and submit.
Please watch the video attached.
Reference materials
Language of sketching information.docx
Language_of_Sketching.mp4
Student work
Language of Sketching Quiz.docx
Points
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Cardboard Furniture #2
Instructions
Week 2 Assignment 3: Design Ideas for one specific piece of cardboard furniture
This week you are going to research a specific piece of cardboard furniture you will eventually make. This will be the Product. You are not making it now. You could choose a chair, desk, table, shelf or other piece of furniture that you eventually want to produce.(You may also want to think about cardboard therapy furniture for people with disabilities. There is are some EXCELLENT ideas in the link the bottom.)
To Start:
Zach Rotholz is a Yale student who is a dynamic cardboard designer. Please watch this about him here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UtgDrCZCEY
Next:
Research ideas for one piece you want to produce. You can come up with an original design, choose a modified version of one the pieces you already researched last week, or modify one of see many other ideas in the links below.
*Do not just copy another idea. You can start with that idea and modify it, but you are not just copying a plan that is out there. It should be an original design as much as possible.
https://www.zachrotholz.com/cardboard-therapy-equipment.html
https://www.zachrotholz.com/chairigami-manufacturing.html
https://www.zachrotholz.com/making-in-miniature.html
https://www.zachrotholz.com/chairigami-store.html
Then:
When you are researching this one piece you want to think:
What is the Audience for this piece?
In other words, who am I designing it for.
What Problem is my design solving?
Why are you making this one thing and why cardboard?
What are the Practical Dimensions or Constraints of my product?
Think about how big it will be and if that it practical.
What are you going to Deliver?
Will it be plans or a finished piece of furniture.
Finish:
Record you ideas on the Word Doc below and submit.
Have fun, dream big but be practical too!
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Assignment
Design Introduction: Cardboard Furniture
Apr 20 (Edited Apr. 20th)
Hello design students!
Your next challenge will be to build a piece of furniture that you can use in real life, maybe at home, at school or somewhere else. However, the piece of furniture will be made of the world's best recycled material - Cardboard. (Some of you watched Design Squad on this topic)
As we research and design our furniture pieces, we will learn about:
-The Design Cycle
-Materials and existing designs
-Basic engineering structures and how to put them to work in our designs
-Design parameters
-Ergonomics
-Aesthetics
Our goal will be to create mini-models and then scale them up for use.
I hope making things will give you a needed break from sitting at a computer. I know that for me, making something real with my hands let's my mind change gears and relax.
There are 2 Assignments for the week.
Week 4/20- 4/25 Assignment 1: Paper Towers
Apr 20 (Edited Apr. 20th)
To start, I would like you to get 5 pieces of about A4 size paper. That's normal printing paper. (If, you can use recycled ones, extra karma points!) However, you can use any paper you have around.
Using any method, create the tallest, strongest structure you can from those pieces of paper. How you fold, attach or cut them is up to you. You can use tape, staples or glue. Just be aware that if you cut and use things to support it, it may get heavier. If you google "paper tower" you can get some good ideas for structures.
Take a picture of the tower, measure it's height, width and length and respond to the questions in Assignment #1 (Attachment at bottom of the page) in Microsoft Teams and turn it in included in your description at the end. Submit on TEAMS
Have fun and be creative. The idea to experiment and make a structure that it tall or strong or both.
Mr. Nimick
Week 4/20-4/25 Assignment 2: Look at Existing Products.
Apr 9 (Edited Apr 9)
Please research "cardboard furniture" online. Please choose 3 pieces of furniture that you like, that look pretty strong and you could use at home or school.
Please record your research in the Assignment 2 form. Also, you might want to view the video links I am including for ideas. Have fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIko_WP6_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaSXJOGiuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3BvPLqhgXU
Origami-style cardboard furniture for dorms, urban nomads
DIY cardboard furniture with free IKEA-style instructions
Editable documents are on Microsoft Teams.Submit on TEAMS
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- Pencil
- Metric or English ruler
- 60# Cardstock,Tagboard, file folder, or cereal box
- Glue
- Tape
- Paper fastener (optional)
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