STEM: Design and make slippers, activities, design booklet, lesson plans

This product provides teachers with all the planning and student resources they need to be able to teach the STEM unit of footwear/slippers to their class. The unit focuses on the work on textiles, and allows students to be able to evaluate existing products, design, make and evaluate their own footwear.

Included in this product:

• 6 detailed lesson plans which take the design process from product analysis, success criteria design, planning, writing instructions, focused practical activities for learning key skills related to textiles, making, evaluating and then reviewing future learning
• 11 page student design booklet to keep their learning journey together and in sequence with the six lesson plans

The six lesson plans include the following design and make steps:

• Unit overview
• Lesson 1: Evaluating current products on the market and looking at design and material use
• Lesson 2: Designing pattern templates, pinning fabric and creating a pattern
• Lesson 3: How to pin, sew and stitch materials together to create a product
• Lesson 4: Design and make slipper/footwear
• Lesson 5: Developing a quality product
• Lesson 6: Evaluating product inline with initial design criteria and objectives

The student workbook has 11 pages which allows students to record all elements of their journey:

• Cover and design
• Thinking drawings
• Product evaluations
• Joining materials in products
• Joining materials using a range of stitching styles
• Evaluate sewing skills
• Safety issues when sewing
• Designing a pattern for footwear
• Developing designs using batik, fabric paint, embroidery and sequins
• Final slipper design
• Making Slipper/footwear
• Instructions/process to follow in a step by step way to make footwear design
• Fabric swatch collections
• Further developments following research
• Evaluation of product
• Future improvements in next learning project

Our students love this topic, and enjoy the fashion show that we put on once everyone has completed their footwear designs and wear them to show the school and their friends.

We hope that your students love it too!

Best wishes

INSPIReducation