Objective:
To provide access for teachers to a range of resources that support Second Suite Rich Task #6: Design, Make and Display a Product. Four major topics have been identified:
Description:
This list provides a starting point for resources to support Second Suite Rich Task #6: Design, Make and Display a Product. Resources have been grouped under the following headings:
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Professional associations, community members or organisations able to provide expert information and advice on topics related to the Rich Task.
AusInvent
http://www.ausinvent.com/ 
Although based in NSW, the site offers students useful information on what is required for product viability, legal requirements and Australian inventors associations. An online assessment section helps inventors to determine their product's technical and commercial viability by answering a questionnaire.
IPAustralia
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
IPAustralia, a federal government department, grants patents and registers designs and trademarks. They maintain databases of patents that can be searched and also provide details on just what constitutes a patent, so that students can learn something about intellectual property and the rights of inventors.
Commerce Queensland: Queensland's Chamber of Commerce and Industry
http://www.commerceqld.com.au/
This site links to local Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the major provincial centres and also provides information on issues of employer concern. Local chambers could be useful in providing schools with speakers and experts to help students become aware of the commercial aspects of product making and promotion.
Engineering Queensland
http://qld.ieaust.org.au/jetspeed/
The Institute of Engineers, Australia - Queensland Division, maintains this site, which contains some useful links for young students. There are also descriptions of dozens of inventions from other parts of the world, including Canada. The site could stimulate an interest in product creation.
The Inventors' Association of Australia in Queensland
http://www.uq.net.au/innovation/
The Association is staffed by voluntary inventors and helps novice inventors with strategies and other advice. The site links to advice on intellectual property, patents and venture capital and the Association acts as a reference resource for inventors. It could be helpful in giving students an understanding of how rough ideas are developed into viable products.
Amazing kids!
http://www.amazing-kids.org/
This non-profit organisation aims to help children achieve their potential through providing them with mentors and role models. A feature, Amazing kids! of the month lists a number of young people and the products they invented, such as a device to help an arthritic grandmother start her car. The site shows children what others can do and are doing.
Inventors
http://inventors.about.com/
This site from About.com contains information on the history of invention, kid inventors and Australian inventions, including the boomerang. Although the site is American, the search engine finds information on other countries. Students will be able to get a broad picture of products, inventions and inventing in different countries.
Machines and things that move
http://education.qld.gov.au/tal/tips/00980.htm 
This unit of work for lower primary students engages them in investigating simple machines and constructing working models. The approach would be helpful for morphing tasks, in the Years 4 and 5, related to designing and constructing a product.
Comprising non-website resources available from a variety of sources.
BIESTY, Stephen (illus); PLATT, Richard 1996, Stephen Biesty's incredible explosions, Ringwood Victoria: Viking.
Stephen Biesty has created exploded drawings of several wonders of the world, machines, buildings and curiosities, including the steam-driven tractor, the human body and the Grand Canyon. Each colour drawing on a large double-page spread contains a meticulously detailed and labelled explanation of the subject. This book should help students look closely at products and product design.
PEDERSEN, Ted and MOSS, Francis 1998, Make your own web page! A guide for kids, New York: Price Stern Sloan.
An excellent introduction to the designing web pages, the book gives step-by-step instructions to imagining, planning and building. It also covers linking within and outside the site as well as launching and maintaining the web page.
WILLIAMS, John 1997, Wheels and transport, Hove: Wayland.
Step-by-step instructions are shown here for making models of a variety of vehicles from a Roman chariot to an electric buggy. The broad principle of the action of wheels in locomotion is the concept involved. It should help students understand the principles of wheels and axles.
BATES, Dianne 1998, Inventions, Port Melbourne: Heinemann Library.
Sixty-four Australian innovations in the fields of farming; food and drink; health and medicine; home and garden; sports; transport; communications and miscellaneous are described. This gives students an idea of the range of inventions and inventors of Australia.
Design. A10851844
One of a series on wood and woodworking designed for schools, this program focuses on design. Briefly looks at: designs from different periods during the past 400 years; issues for consideration before completing an object's design; the design process; the cutting list; and order of construction. Includes comments and advice from lecturers, teachers, craftsmen, male and female high school. The video will give students ideas about design considerations for wooden products.
Resistant materials. A10866019
Shows how the design and manufacture of high quality glass fibre car bodies, pre-fabricated built-in furniture, and brass musical instruments all require the combination of skilled workers, robotic machinery and computers. Students will be able to appreciate the need for human skills, precision, quality control and safety measures.
AccessEd Video Library online catalogue
http://nslib.qed.qld.gov.au/oau-fvlib/webinqu2.dll?
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Other resources for Second Suite Rich Task #6: Design, Make and Display a Product may be found by searching the Curriculum
Exchange collections
, the Library Services collections
or the Internet. The following criteria listed under Keywords and/or Subject are
suggested search terms:
Curriculum level:
Middle Primary; Upper Primary
Audience:
Student; Teacher
Keywords:
Product design; Product development
Subject:
Design; Models and model making; Mass production; Marketing; Inventions; Inventors, Manufacturing; Exhibits; Display aids; Curriculum materials
Dewey number:
670
Source:
New Basics Project, Education Queensland
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