1. Uses of paper and boards
Papers and boards are here for a reason – each one’s best at a different job. Just add Fish and Chips

2. Discovering Papers and BoardsCW
Date
Discovering Papers and Boards

3. Understand Papers and Boards
Know the primary sources of materials for producing papers and boards
Recognise characteristics of different papers and boards
Explain and understand physical and working properties and how they affect the performance of papers and boards

5. What is GSM?
200GSM
What does GSM stand for?
Paper
Board

6. Uses of paper and boards
Packaging
Sketching
Writing
Tracing
Models
Containers
Uses of paper and boards
Diagrams
Painting
Printing
Papers and boards are here for a reason – each one’s best at a different job. Just add Fish and Chips

7. How is paper made?

8. Activity
You are going to copy the table from the next slide into your exercise book.
You are going to use the cards around the room to fill in the first three columns
You will then bring your book back to your desk to fill in the fourth column on your own

9. Name
Appearance
Characteristics
What I think it can be used for and why
Bleed proof paper
Cartridge paper
Grid paper
Layout paper
Tracing paper
Corrugated Cardboard
Duplex board
Foil lined board
Ink Jet Card
Foam Core Board
Solid White Board
Challenge: Somewhere in your uses you must include – rendering a final design using coloured marker pens, creating the net for a box to transport cakes, producing a high quality point of sale advertising stand to hold leaflets.

10. Exam Question
A disposable coffee cup is made of duplex board with a corrugated carboard sleeve.
A) Suggest and justify two properties of corrugated card that make it suitable for use as a sleeve (4)
B) Explain how the properties of duplex card can be modified to make it more suitable for holding a liquid (3)

11. In your book from today’s lesson:
A definition of paper and one for board
A table to compare the different papers and boards
Answers to questions completed in lesson, peer marked and improved in purple pen

12. Understand Papers and Boards
Know the primary sources of materials for producing papers and boards
Recognise characteristics of different papers and boards
Explain and understand physical and working properties and how they affect the performance of papers and boards

14. Final Questioning One person must say the name of a board or paper
Someone else must say what it could be used for
Someone else must try and explain and justify why it is suitable for that use
Someone else could add another point to agree with it
Someone else could disagree and say why
Someone else could give an alternative paper or board and explain why
And then go back to the start