Toy Designers

Name:

Date:

Class: Prep
Information: In your technologies subject, you have been learning about technologies and how
they use forces to create movement in objects. Your role is to reflect on all the activities we
have undertaken. You will become a TOY DESIGNER. Now it is your turn to use your creativity
to design a toy with a partner!

Things to consider and include:

Elements of push and pull
You can use 4 classroom materials to design your toy
You can use any arts/crafts materials to enhance the design of your toy

You will have two lessons to design your toy appropriately, so use your time wisely!
Your teacher will help you understand the marking rubric followed on the next page.
First, you will brainstorm on a piece of paper to explain your design thinking
Brainstorm ideas:
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What steps will you need to take in order to design your toy?
Draw pictures to support your thinking

Criteria

Design and

Technologies
Knowledge
and

Understandi

You have designed a highly appropriate toy

You have designed an

You have designed a toy

that demonstrates push and pull elements

appropriate toy that

that demonstrates some

effectively. You have used 4 classroom

demonstrates push and pull

elements of push and pull

objects to design your toy successfully. Your

elements effectively. You

effectively. You have used

toy is very visually pleasing and very

have used 4 classroom

4 classroom objects to

appropriate to the classroom context.

objects to design your toy.

design your toy. Your toy is

Your toy is visually pleasing

somewhat visually pleasing

and appropriate to the

and appropriate to the

ng

classroom context.

Design and

Technologies
Processes
and
Production
Skills

classroom context.

You have appropriately brainstormed various

You have brainstormed

You have brainstormed

ideas, and sequenced a range of appropriate

some ideas, and adequately

ideas, and sequenced steps,

id

steps, for making valuable solutions that

sequenced a range of steps,

for making solutions that

allowed you to collaboratively to design your

for making solutions that

allowed you to design your

toy in your pair. Your steps were very easy to

allowed you to

toy in your pair. Your steps

understand with accompanying pictures and

collaboratively design your

could be understood with

flowed in the correct order. Both members

toy in your pair. Your steps

some of the accompanying

worked extremely well together to achieve a

were easy to understand

pictures and flowed in an

desired outcome.

with accompanying pictures

order. Both members

and flowed in the correct

worked together to achieve

order. Both members

a desired outcome.

worked well together to

achieve a desired outcome.