The Sit Down unit in Year 10 Makerspace is a popular one with the students - in short they create a stool that supports 8kg. The challenge is they have to use materials, tools and technologies in innovative or usual ways. For example they may use found sticks from a park and use heat molding of recycled plastic bottles as the joining material or they may upcycle a found plastic seat by merging it with a 3D printed stool leg attached using knitted methods. Aside from reworking the way we taught the unit to include more workshop based activities that were differentiated to acknowledge many students' transferable skills from their VET courses, we also looked at the traditional rubric and considered options for greater student ownership and input.
Below are the two versions - the required standard version for the College and the revised version developed.
Below are the two versions - the required standard version for the College and the revised version developed.
Existing rubric |
Revised rubric |
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Fetaures;
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Please note this is a work in progress - the graph is still being refined. In particular how to include all standard descriptors of the rubric in the graph is key.
Features;
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