Product design: Design Guides
There are 8 Design Guides: Seating, Automata, Lighting, Storage, Toys and games, Testing equipment, Body adornment, and Improving quality. Each Design Guide also contains the relevant Line of Interest Resource Task(s). You can download these free of charge to use with your students.
We also include here the Mechanical Systems Design Guide, the Structural Systems Design Guide and the Electrical Systems Design Guide.
Product design: Design Guide 1
Seating
We spend a lot of our time sitting down. The type of seating you use depends on where you are and what you are doing. Here students learn to design seating for different purposes.
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 1 RT
Here is the Resource Task on Seating
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 2
Automata
Students learn all about mechanical toys and how to design and build them.
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 2 RT
Automata Resource Task
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updated: 7 February 2007
Product design: Design Guide 3
Lighting
Students learn about different sorts of lighting, the various kinds of bulbs, fittings and switches, and how to design their own lamp.
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updated: 7 February 2007