Recycling

4. Design task

Required Resources

• Student Worksheets 2a-c
• Slides 14-15

Delivery

• Explain to the students that their task for the lesson will be to identify alternative uses of products for which their primary use has ended. Display Slides 14-15 which provide information on a team of Army engineers (the Gibraltar Regiment) who designed and built a playground for deaf children in Gambia, West Africa.
• Split the students into groups of three and distribute copies of Student Worksheet 2a-c which provides them with a design brief asking them to play the role of the Gibraltar Regiment and design a fun, interactive and educational play garden area by repurposing existing available materials.
• You should encourage creativity and suggest that students attempt to include links with music, water play and harnessing the wind to make their garden as interactive as possible for the children.
• Ask the students to design three pieces of playground apparatus before drawing a plan of their garden on Student Worksheet 2c. They should write a brief paragraph explaining the processes involved in the reuse of the military materials which are used in their design.

Differentiation

Lower Ability:

Lower ability students can be asked to create just one piece of apparatus instead of three as specified on the Student Worksheet.

Higher Ability:

Higher ability students could be asked to work up one of their designs for apparatus into a scale drawing, providing exploded diagrams of all joints and areas of detail.