Optional perspective exercise

 Voluntary project to present ONLY if you've handed in ALL obligatory project. It'll put up your final 3rd term mark.

Deadlines:

3ºA- 2nd June, Thursday                                  3ºCD- 3rd June, Friday

3ºB- 3rd June, Friday                                       3ºE- 3rd June, Friday

CBL project. Step 1: researching

 Welcome to the first exercise of our Challenge Based Learning (CBL) project!!!

All the project is going to be related to URBAN EQUIPMENT

We are surrounded by it when we live in cities but, what is it? How does it influence our daily lives? Is it all updated, modern and well designed? Does it have disadvantages or can it be bothering sometimes? How does it influence the urban landscape?

In your first exercise, you are going to make some research that will work as inspiration for the design stages later to come. You can start your research by having a look at this Pinterest dashboard I've created for you, but of course you can find information anywhere else!!

Check your Task in Teams for your deadline and prepare a WORD DOCUMENT including the next parts:

1- Cover (title "Urban equipment research project" + pair members names + class + image) and index

2- Introduction: What is urban equipment? Examples. Insert some photos of urban equipment you use in your neighbourhood. Other guiding questions for your introduction can be: How does it influence our daily lives? How does it influence the urban landscape and the human interactions in the city?

3- Information about 3 pieces of urban equipment you find in the Internet:

    - Photos.

    - Where is it and who designed it.

    - Utilities.

    - Materials it's made of.

    - General measurements (height, width, lenght, you can show them on an annotated sketch made by         you and insert a photo).

4- Choose one of the 3 selected pieces of equipment and make a 3D model with Sketchup. Export various png files and insert them in your work. Include components (people, trees, bicycles... to give an idea of its scale). Check the bottom of this post to see how to find components in Sketchup.

5- Conclusion. Answer the following questions:

    - What have you learned doing this research?

    - Is the urban equipment aroun you updated, modern and well designed? 

    - Does urban equipment disadvantages or can it be bothering sometimes?

    - What type of urban equipment is more attractive for you? What would you like to design?

6- Webgraphy: list of visited websites.

7- Self-evaluation: Copy the chart with the items and the maximum points an complete the column according to your own opinion about your work. Don't forget adding it on the last page of the project if you don't want to get 1 point less in the final mark.

These are the presentation rules and the evaluation criteria:

- Convert your .doc file into a pdf file and send it to the teacher via Teams in the assigned deadline.

- In case of pairs, BOTH STUDENTS must send their work by Teams. If not, 1 point will be taken off both students' mark and 1 extra point from the student not sending it.

- Here are your evaluation criteria for you to complete your self evaluation:

Item	Description	Maximum points	Self evaluation	Teacher’s evaluation
Parts of the work	The work includes all the parts indicated in the instructions, in the right order	1
Quality of the research	Enough examples have been researched, using original online resources. Each example is detailed in photos, materials, description, measurements and utility.	3
Depth of your reflections	The conclusion and the introduction include reflective deep thoughts, own ideas and show motivation and interest.	2
3D model	The chosen example is represented on images (.png) files inserted in the work. The images include an idea of the materials used and the object’s scale. It includes people, trees or vehicles to integrate it on an urban landscape.	3
Presentation	The work is presented in a clean and beautiful manner, taking care of the typographies, the spaces between paragraphs, the inserted photos… It’s original and creative.	1

This is where to find the components in Sketchup:

Second Sketchup tutorial: Project 2

 

Google Sketchup tutorial: First steps and Project 1

 

Sketchup tutorial: First steps - YouTube

11th February: Creating the "treasure" map

 The teacher will give you an aerial photo of the school.

These are the steps you'll have to follow to create your own dinA4 map:

1- Measure one of the pabillions to work out the graphical scale of the photo.

2- Calculate the real measurements of the buildings by rules of three.

3- Select the area you want you plan to cover. Then. choose the scale that better fits the paper (1:???).

4- Draw the top view of the school at the chosen scale. Draw the North on a corner of the map. Write the scale on a label.

5- Make titles for the map: "Go here if you want to find out" (or something like this). Use the labelling rules!

6- Choose the location of the poster and mark it on the map so people will be able to find the answer. If you wish, you can trace the path that the viewer has to follow.

Hand it in to the teacher at the end of the second session.

QUALIFICATION CRITERIA

30% Cleanliness and presentation

30% Drawing precision, parallel lines tracing

20% Adequate scale

20% Labels, North, indications, etc

Unit 2: Drawing materials and Basic vocabulary

Basic materials you will need on the first day of Unit 2 (will be announced by the teachers):

- A 2H or 3H pencil.
- A 2B pencil.
- A rubber.
- A pencil sharpener.
- A rigid ruler. Minimum 30 cm. Good quality, please.
- Big good quality set of squares. They don't need to be graded.
- A4 white paper.

- The photocopies bought at the start of the year. 


This is the basic vocab you must learn and the grammar structures we will frequently use in this Unit:

Unit 2: Presentation

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