1. WEEKLEY HOMEWORK AND COMMON TASKS
Common tasks are highlighted by the following colours:
1 Blue Focus: Investigation skills
2 Red Focus: Designing skills
3 Green Focus: Practical skills
4 Orange Focus: Evaluation skills
It is expected that the common task is an extended task taking at least one hour to complete.
As with all Design and Technology homework that you complete this task should be presented well with a title, date, a boarder and colour for any diagrams/pictures added.
Other homework tasks will be recorded in your contact diary by the colour and will be set weekly at the teachers discretion.

2. BLUE common tasks
TASK 1
Look at the Solar-Aid case studies or search for “PDF solar aid impact case studies”
Then think about these two questions:
 What problems do kerosene lamps cause children in East Africa?
 How has solar energy helped children in East Africa?
Write the disadvantages of the kerosene lamp and the advantages of solar power in each of the following contexts
Health
Education
Money
Environment
TASK 2
Write a diary entry for a child who has just received their first solar light reflecting on the day they got a solar light and how it changed their lives.
Your diary entry should be creative and show you fully understand the impact a solar light would have on child suffering energy poverty. You talk about their aspirations and how solar lights have enabled them

3. RED COMMON TASK Hints Task 1 Biomimcry – Science
Research and Identify the products that have been inspired by the following solutions nature has designed .
Explain how each product has been improved by using inspiration from nature ,
Hints
Clothing/ boats, adhesives, water bottles, trains, propellers/turbines, buildings , fastenings
Shark skin
Termite mound cooling system
Geckos feet
Burdock seed
Humpback fin
KINGFISHER
Fog Beetle
Task 2 Biomimcry - form
Designers often use nature to inspire the form or shape of products for example the artichoke lamp (see fig1).
Produce 3 detailed and well presented design ideas for your solar light that are clearly inspired by nature.
include a picture of your inspiration
Carefully used colour
Detailed annotation
High quality sketching skills
Fig1

4. DO NOT take apart ANY product that uses Mains 240V power
ORANGE common task
DO NOT take apart ANY product that uses Mains 240V power
Product investigation / disassembly
Investigate a simple product from home. Take it apart (if possible) and complete the following tasks
Sketch and photograph each component of the product
Identify the material each component is made from
Use notes and sketches to explain how each component was commercially manufactured
Explain the function and purpose for each component .
Present your findings carefully and with style on A3 paper
Success Criteria
Detailed Information on a suitable material with explained justifications using technical language
Detailed Information on a suitable production process with explained justifications using technical language
You have suggested appropriate alternatives
You make comment on the possible environmental impact of a material and process
You have used your own photos which have been carefully taken considering the angle
It is professionally presented and uses hand drawn diagrams to illustrate your findings.
You have considered the layout of your sheet and have used consistent presentation
You show an in depth understanding of a range of materials and processes
You identify and present moulding witness marks

5. GREEN COMMON TASK Example Do not choose Trevor Bayliss TASK 1 HINT
Research a product that you feel solves a genuine problem using innovation (a new way of doing things)
Complete blank template (available on the VLE)
HINT
Do not choose mobile telephones, games consoles, tablets etc ,
Task 2
Choose 2 of the followings designers and produce
2 posters - one for each designer using at least 10 images of their most famous work
A short paragraph explaining their work and influence
Present your work so it is suitable for display
Example
Do not choose
Trevor Bayliss
Dieter Rams
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Zaha Hadid
Joe Colombo
Phillipe Starck
Norman Foster
Antoni Gaudí
Eileen Gray
Marcel Breuer
Alec Issigonis
Arne Jacobsen
Ross Lovegrove
Charles and Ray Eames
Jasper Morrison
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Marc Newson
Frank Gehry
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Frank Lloyd Wright
Richard Rogers
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Peter Saville
Le Corbusier
Verner Panton
Sir Jonathan Ive
Vivienne Westwood
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
Achille Castiglioni
Thomas Heatherwick
Wells Coates
Sebastian Bergne
Giles Gilbert Scott
James Dyson
Alvar Aalto
Ron Arad