Year 8 Textiles

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Year 8 Textiles
Rip-Stop Nylon

• Homework Project 2 hours

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The Task

• This project has 4 tasks which will help to
  develop
• your research and design skills
• Research
• The origins properties of rip-stop nylon
  present your findings
• Products that are made from rip-stop nylon
  present your findings
• Design
• Produce a detailed imaginative design idea for
  a textiles product that can be made from rip-stop
  nylon
• Explain how your research influenced your design
  idea

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Deadlines

• Research Section due in for checking Week 2 (1
  hours worth of homework)
• Whole Project due in for assessment Week 4
  penultimate lesson
• Over the course of the 6/7 weeks you will be
  allocated 4 homework sessions to work on this
  project
• You may have some homework in addition to this
  throughout the Textiles project, so you will need
  to plan your time carefully!

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Research Task 1

• Using books the internet you are to find out
  present information about Rip-stop Nylon
• You should look at when, where why it was
  invented
• You should also find out information about the
  properties of the fabric (such as water
  repellent)

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Present the findings from Research Task 1

• You can choose how you would like to present this
  information it can be hand-written or typed
• Ideas
• PowerPoint slides
• Leaflet / information sheet
• Facts written on / with associated pictures, etc.
• Whichever method you choose, your work should
  show detail imagination ask for help if you
  are stuck!

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Research Task 2

• Using books the internet, find a number of
  different products that are made from rip-stop
  nylon and use the information from your initial
  research to explain why you think it is
  appropriate for those products

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Present the findings from Research Task 2

• You should include pictures of the different
  products and annotate them to show...
• What the product is
• Different reasons why rip-stop nylon is an
  appropriate fabric to use for the product
• You are expected to find write about 3-5
  different products again, you can choose how to
  present this work... ask for help if you get
  stuck!

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Design Task 1 Designing a Product

• Design a textiles product that uses rip-stop
  nylon
• You should use your research to help you design a
  product that the fabric would suit
• Your design should be imaginative and detailed
• The drawing should be neat, fully coloured and
  show the product from different angles (front
  back / inside outside)

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Presenting Design Ideas

• Your design must be neat, clearly presented
  fully coloured
• It must also show the product from different
  angles as appropriate
• It does not have to be coloured with pencil
  crayons you could use paint, magazine / fabric
  collages, pastels, models etc. (Please do not
  use felt pens as it is difficult to produce a
  high quality finish with them!)

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Design Task 2 Explaining Design Ideas

• When you have completed your design you will then
  need to annotate write about your idea
• The annotation should describe different
  features of the product
• You should write detailed paragraphs to explain
  How your research helped you to come up with the
  idea which properties of the fabric make it
  suitable for your product why

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Extension Task

• If you find that you have a number of ideas, you
  could produce a range of design ideas for
  different products made with rip-stop nylon
  each design idea must be presented in as much
  detail as is required for the main homework task
  if you want to achieve a high effort level!
• (This is an optional task)

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Project Check List
The more of the boxes that are ticked, the more
successful your project will be!
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Assessment Criteria

• Section 1 (Research tasks 1 2) should be handed
  in to be checked in Week 2 of the project
• The finished project must be presented in the
  penultimate lesson (Week 4) of the Textiles
  project
• You will be presenting your work to the class and
  then handing it in to your teacher for formal
  assessment
• This project will be assessed against different
  areas of the National Curriculum (with regards to
  research design skills) and will account for
  part of your overall attainment level for the
  Year 8 Textiles project