Study Method

DRAWING / SKETCHES

Drawing enables pupils to understand and to think, to work out problems

and to communicate ideas and information to others.Drawing can helps to

put ideas into action.These drawings form a bridge between the realm of

the imagination and the implementation.

It is a valuable aid to the thinking process, to understand, to communicate

and to invent.

WORDS AND IMAGES

Words help students understand, analyse, and express ideas.They allow

them to comment, report , explain, justify, argue and debate, all necessary

for critical study.Skils in listening and talking are developed throught group

work.

MAPS / PLANS

Maps are use to inform and explain.Maps can be used in environmental

design projects to represent the position of buildings, orientation to show

light and shade at different times of day, land use, pedestrial movements.

The difference in maps and plans is the scale.Just like maps can show

areas.

3 DIMENSIONAL

Working in 3d helps pupils to appreciate volume and enclosure, positive

and negative,solid and void.It allows them to explore a space from different

viewpoints and to appreciate relationships between one space and another.

DISCUSSION

Designers work increasingly as memebers of team, and need to be able to

work coraboratively. They need to articulate and to be able to to express

their ideas clearly and convincingly.Pupils may work in pairs or small

groups.

PRESENTATION MODEL

Pupils work with drawings, maps photographs and sketch models to

develop their ideas. Examples of their work placed on display show how

their thinking has developed.

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations are useful to bring the project to a conclusion, formalising

what have been learnt and making it public.The preparation for this obliges

pupils to reflect on their experience and to be clear what they have learnt,

as they have to present and explain it to others.

EXHIBITIONS

Pupils learn not only for the experience of looking at a display.They

probably learn more from creating a display orexhibition of their works.This

is bringing into play curatorial and design skills,where they have to be clear

what is it they wish to communicate and how best to do it.