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| Details : | Let's make some chocolate A design activity for P6/7 (Scotland) A beginners activity in using ProDESKTOP in a team situation |
| Software : | Pro/DESKTOP |
| Keystage : | Keystage 3 |
| Year group(s) : | P6/7 (Key Stage 3) |
| Timescale : | 1 hr ProDESKTOP + whatever you like |
| Resources : | Bars of chocolate, PoS material., Chocolate Making videos etc. |
| Author : | John Forth |
| Approved : | 26 Sep 2006, 3:33 pm |
| The Unit/Activity Enabled Pupils to: | Teaching Strategies? | Pupil Outcomes |
| Use the software to explore ideas, generate ideas, develop and model ideas, plan, evaluate | Pupils get a letter saying that a company wishes to make a new variety chocolate bar. They look at the market and sketch some ideas. | Each pupils creates a different piece which are mounted on a standard shape block. The teacher collects these, either by network drive or common disc. The teacher then creates 12 or 6 block bars by assembly and Use Component (Add Material). This block is then scaled and a *.stl file created which is used to make an MDF model that is used to create a vacuum formed mould. The project could continue as a Food Technology Project. |
| Use the software to consider manufacturing issues | Need for standardisation Draft on mould to release, CNC constraints | Each one the same size "built" on a common block |
| Use the software to explore cross-curricular links | Calculate ammount of chocolate used using the material properties. | Each piece produced will have a mass that can be added to all the others |
| Demonstrate CAD capability for assessment purposes | n/a | n/a |
