Archer Inventors Summer Project 2015
The task:
You are going to develop an invention for tomorrow's world. You will be given 6 invention categories in this booklet to choose
from. You will need to produce a thorough and detailed project about your idea.
Your main tasks will involve:
Researching your idea.
Using surveys to find out about your target market.
Presenting and analysing your findings using various methods of data presentation.
Creating a final design brief.
Presenting your idea through an extended piece of persuasive writing.
Evaluating the success of your work.
The final piece of work should be submitted as a project in a clearly labelled folder with your name and tutor group.
The best entries will be awarded prizes and one project from each tutor group will be put into the grand ‘Archer
Inventors’ final. In this competition, you will be given the chance to pitch your ideas to our Archer Dragon’s to convince
them to invest money into your design. A final prize will be awarded for the winner in year 7 and the winner in year 8.
This piece of work is compulsory and must be submitted to form tutors on Monday 7th September for year 9 and
Tuesday 8th September for year 8.
Learning objectives:
To work on a high quality thematic project showing evidence of research, analysis and evaluation.
To enhance your creativity and independent learning skills through the development of your own innovative
invention for tomorrow’s world.
To apply numeracy and literacy skills that have been developed across this year.
To be successful you must: Fully complete each section as instructed.
Organise your work appropriately to show clear development of ideas.
Show high quality of presentation using QMS guidelines.
Use diagrams where appropriate to present your invention ideas.
Make sure that all diagrams have clear and appropriate titles, labels and annotations.
Show clear evidence of independent research.
Proof read your work to ensure it is communicated accurately and clearly.
Numeracy Expectations: Show appropriate questionnaire questions.
Design an appropriate capture sheet to record results.
Present graphs accurately, with clearly labelled axis and appropriate titles.
Show clear use of results when drawing conclusions and making decisions on your invention.
Literacy Expectations: Make sure that all of your ideas are explained thoroughly and clearly.
Show high levels of literacy with appropriate grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Write in clear PEE paragraphs where appropriate.
Your final project will be awarded a gold, silver and bronze level. This level will reflect how well you have met the above success criteria.
Project success criteria
Option 2: Design a new school bag
Heston Blumenthal is an amazing chef and inventor. Use
him as inspiration to design or improve a recipe. Who
knows you may awaken the chef in you!
Useful websites:Heston’s giant ice cream
An article on Heston Blumenthal’s giant ice cream.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2167197/Heston-Blumenthal-unveils-worlds-
largest-ice-cream.html
Chemistry in the kitchen
Videos explaining why everything in the kitchen involves chemistry.
http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00000850/kitchen-chemistry?cmpid=CMP00000966
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/chemical-reactions-during-cooking/92.html
Chemical changes in cooking
Some good examples of chemical changes in cooking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway/carbon_chemistry/
cookingrev1.shtml
Royal Society of Chemistry on Heston Blumenthal
An article describing some of Heston Blumenthal’s cooking with chemistry.http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2005/May/Cookedtoperfection.asp
Examples of chemical reactions in the kitchen (extension)
More detailed explanation of some chemical changes in cooking.
http://www.ehow.co.uk/list_6457215_examples-chemical-reactions-kitchen.html#pg=6
Design your own school bag with new innovative
ideas and using SMART materials.
Think about the following:
What don’t you like about your school bag?
What do you like?
How can you improve the design?
Can you use any SMART materials?
How can you make it different to the other bags?
Useful websites:• https://www.rubegoldberg.com/• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/design/re
sistantmaterials/materialsmaterialsrev5.shtml• http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/colle
ction/1515/smart-materials
Option 1: Design a new innovative recipe
In many countries in Africa, two out of every five people do not have access
to clean water. This increases the risk of illness caused by dehydration and
poor sanitation. A seemingly simple, plastic barrel has made it possible to
transport five-times the amount of water from a source to households, in
countries where water is not readily accessible. The Hippo Water Roller is
already in use in South America, India and 21 African countries, helping
people reallocate hours spent fetching water to hours spent in school or
completing tasks that may one day lift their families out of poverty.
Find out about the Hippo water roller;
• how it works,
• how you might be able to improve it,
• the difference it has made in the world,
• What difference has it made in the world?
• What other inventions have helped change the wold in this
way?
Use your research to improve the design of the Hippo Water
Roller, or to come up with your own invention to help improve
the quality of lives in Less Developed Country’s.
Useful websites:http://borgenproject.org/5-inventions-that-are-saving-lives/
Option 3: Improve or design a better Hippo Water Roller
Option 4: Where can we go next with 3D printing?
3D printing is a recent invention that has opened
up a new world to inventors and designers all over
the world. They can be used for making anything
including printing new organs!
Find out about the different uses and come up with
your own ideas. Suggest new ways of how these
printers can be used in the future.
Useful websites:• https://designmuseum.org/• http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/02/26/12-things-we-
can-3d-print-in-medicine-right-now/• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/print-
thyself
Design your own invention that will help develop something
in either criminology or medicine.
Inventions don’t always have the uses that we expect. Use
the websites to research how new inventions in criminology
have helped solve crimes.
You can also use the last link to find out about the
unexpected turns that inventions have lead us through.
Useful Websites:• http://www.livescience.com/33749-top-10-inventions-changed-
world.html• http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/11-innovations-that-
changed-history• http://io9.com/5951267/10-inventions-that-changed-the-world-in-
ways-we-didnt-expect
Option 5: New inventions in criminology and/or medicine.
Other useful websites links to get your started:
http://www.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite-staging.net/education/topics/z9gcwmn/resources/3
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/4981964/Top-10-inventions-that-changed-the-world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zsfb87h
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world?ocid=fu.ap.dw.tlt.ms.na
Option 6: Your own invention.
After conducting initial research you may have an
interesting idea of your own. The websites below
might help to spark an idea.
Your idea must be something that will prove useful in
today’s society.
Once you have chosen your design, you should complete all of the following activities.
Step 1: Introducing your project
You must introduce what you plan to do in your project. Explain clearly what the primary objective of your project will be and how you intend to find out information.
Use the following guidelines to help you:
Outline the nature of the task and describe what it is about.
Outline which of the 5 ideas you intend to develop and what you hope to achieve from this.
Describe how you will collect information to shape your ideas.
Explain why new inventions are important for society today. Refer to a number of examples e.g. internet, television, mobile phone.
Step 2: Background Research
Conduct some initial research:
Research other similar projects. Show a range of product designs and try to annotate key features of the design.
Evaluate these designs. Explain what has gone well about these inventions, why they are successful and suggest how you think they might be improved.
Finally, suggest one or two lessons you have learned from your research which will help you in your own design.
Step 3: Design a survey to help with your market research
Task 1: Design 5 ‘good’ questions that you
would like to find out about your invention
from the public.
Do you remember what makes a good survey
question? Think back to the Thematic Topic “Our
School; our community” project in Year 7
• Don’t be too vague
• Don’t be too personal
• Don’t be too biased
Examples might include:
• Their age / sex
• How many times they would use your product a
day / week / year?
• How much would people be willing to spend on
your product?
• Which was their favourite of your possible designs /
flavours / etc.
Task 2: Design a capture sheet (tally table to
record people’s responses to your questions)Remember:
DO include all possible options (0, more than five times a
week, etc.)
DO use numbers as answers
DON’T be vague with your questions (sometimes, often, etc.)
DON’T have overlapping boundaries that may confuse (5-10 ;
10-15 ; etc.)
Task 3: Show the responses to your 2 most
important questions in an appropriate graph or
chart. You can either do this on a computer using Microsoft Excel or
hand drawn on paper. Think carefully about your presentation, label axis,
provide an appropriate title and annotate key findings, patterns or
unusual responses. Make it pretty!!
Task 4: Draw a conclusion about your findings. Write a paragraph to show what have you learnt and what
factors you will need to take into account based on your
questionnaire findings.
Now you’ve completed your research, it’s time to come up with your invention and present your
ideas!
1) Draw a sketch of your invention and add annotations to explain the key features.
2) Give a detailed brief (written account) about your invention explaining the following:
Who you would like your target audience to be and why e.g. age, gender etc.
The benefits of your invention
Why there is a need for it in today’s society
What your unique selling point is
The difficulties or challenges you may have with your invention
3) Extended writing task: Write a persuasive speech to explain to our Archer Dragons why
your invention is the one they should invest in! This should be detailed and include a minimum of 5 paragraphs.
Step 4: Present your ideas
Success criteria:
A range of persuasive techniques, such as imperatives, rhetorical questions, facts, statistics, addressing the audience, rule of three and
repetition.
At least five paragraphs, including an introduction and conclusion
Discourse markers to structure your speech clearly, e.g. firstly, secondly, in conclusion
Formal, sophisticated language suitable for the adult audience
Look at the example below and highlight examples of the above success criteria:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am here today to tell you why you should invest in my invention. Let me ask you, don’t we need to find an effective, more energy effective,
quicker way to travel for the 21st century. Well, I have the answer. Solar powered roller skates! Let me tell you why these are the invention
you’ve been waiting for.
Firstly, we are increasingly becoming a nation characterized by laziness. People catch busses, taxis or drive to work. People need to
exercise more! The health benefits are widely known and promoted by health experts. These solar panelled roller skates will encourage
people to avoid public transport and whizz their way to work in a flash instead! This will improve their heart rate, fitness and extend their lives
as a result. Surely this is what we need during an obesity epidemic?
Secondly, we need to seriously think about our environment. Buses and cars cause pollution. Don’t you want to make sure our air is clean
for future generations? Your children? Your grandchildren? Well, these roller skates will not only cut back on pollution by cutting the number
of traffic on the roads, but the solar panels will also save energy.
Extended Writing Success Criteria
Other sentence starters:
In addition…. In conclusion… Lastly… Finally…
Step 5:Challenge Tasks
• Will you push yourself to take on these challenges and
be one step closer to bringing your invention to life?
• Choose as many as you like to include in your project.
Maths: Can you
provide a table of
costings? You
should include costs
for materials,
production,
advertising, branding
and overall projected
profit. You should
carry out research into
average costings to
inform your pricing
and include details of
this research in your
project.
Performing Arts:
Can you produce an
advert for your
product? Analyse some
adverts for similar
products and write up
your findings, including
the strengths and
weaknesses of each
advert. Film your advert
and write a short
explanation of your
choice of style, tone,
sound effects and
camera shots/angles.
Geography: Can
you make your
product
sustainable? Explain
the environmental,
economic and social
benefits of your
product by drawing a
Venn diagram or by
writing a report of no
more than 200 words.
You should also
include your rationale
– why you think this is
important.
Design and
Technology: Can you
create a prototype?
Build a model of your
product using a material
of your choice. You could
include a labelled plan.
Art: can you brand
your product? Design a
logo with clear branding
and justify your choice of
colour, shape and style.
You could also create a
catchy slogan.
Write an evaluation of your overall project:
Your Invention:
Explain what could you do to develop your project further?
Consider the following:
• What other information might you need to know to make sure your invention is a success?• What would need to do next to get people interested in your invention?
• What other products could support or enhance your invention?
Your overall project?
What parts of the project did you find most challenging?
What part of the project have you enjoyed the most?
If you were to do the project again, is there anything you would do differently – explain
your answer?
Step 6: Evaluation
Step 7: Creating a bibliography
What is a bibliography?
• A bibliography is a list of all the sources that you have used when researching your work.
• This includes all books, magazines, newspapers, websites, interviews and TV programmes.
• It is best to keep your bibliography up to date as you go through the project. Keep a word file called bibliography and open
and add to it whenever you do some research.
What should your bibliography look like?
• Put each source on a single line, with a comma between each piece of information and a full stop at the end.
• You should arrange them in alphabetical order of the author's surname.
• You should also make sure that the list is double-spaced.
Remember:
• Author - put the last name first.
• Title - this should be underlined and in quotation marks.
• Publisher - in a book this is usually located on one of the first few pages.
• Date - the date/year the book/article was published.
Use the examples below as a guide:BooksFleming, Ian, 'Diamonds are Forever', Penguin Books, 1957.Jon Spencer, Architect, interviewed on 3/3/2005.Websiteshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dida, 'Dangers of the Internet', June 2005.
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