Mobile Phone Cover (Lower Key Stage 2)

Design Brief: Design and make a monster-themed mobile phone cover to protect a mobile phone.
Strand of Learning: Materials & Textiles
Overview: In this unit of work children design and make a mobile phone cover using textile materials. Children have the opportunity to consolidate their skills in sewing using the running stitch and are taught the technique of the overstitch. They develop their embroidery skills using Binca material and applying a range of stitching techniques including the cross-stitch. Children learn about models and mock-ups and how designers use them to try out and test design ideas that they have. Children learn about different textile fastenings and consider which ones would be best suited to use in a mobile phone case. They develop their knowledge of textile decorative techniques including embroidery, embellishment and appliqué to create a monster-themed mobile phone cover.

Medium Term Planning includes:

Pupils should know:

The difference between a design brief and design specifications.
Design specifications describe how a product should be made, how it works or what it should do.
How making models of their intended product can help in the design process.
The properties of materials that they are working with and how these determine the tools and techniques that they use.
Design specifications are a list of success criteria for the product.
When evaluating products, it is important to use the design brief and the design specifications as a guide.

Textiles

That ‘joining technique’ means connecting two pieces of fabrics together and the methods that are permanent or temporary.
A range of joining techniques to connect two pieces of fabrics together such as sewing and gluing.
Joining two edges of fabrics together creates a seam.
A range of sewing techniques (such as a running stitch for making seams and cross stitch for decoration)
Applique is a way of decorating textiles by adding smaller pieces of fabric to create a picture or a pattern.

Pupils should know how to:

Generate ideas for a product, considering its purpose and who the client is.
Design a product that meets client’s needs and the design brief.
Use design specifications as a guide to the making process.
Select suitable tools, equipment, materials, and components for the task.
Explain their choices of materials, techniques and tools when making a product.
Measure, mark out, cut and shape materials with increasing accuracy.
Select and apply a finishing technique to create a quality product.
Identify the characteristics of a design which makes the product useful and successful.
Test for the strength and stability of different structures
List the ways in which a finished product meets the design specifications.
Evaluate their product using a range of sources including client review, peer review, design brief and the design criteria.

Textiles

Measure, mark out and cut fabric using a paper template (pattern)
Join fabrics together using a range of different sewing techniques (such as running stitch and cross stitch) including allowing for a seam.
Create a 3D fabric product by combining fabric pieces and using a seam allowance.
Apply a range of decorative techniques, including embroidery stitches, to different fabric materials.