9JDM

Year 9 TECHNOLOGY - Jewellery: Designer-Maker

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs T. Tippett.

Do you have a passion for designing and making jewellery ? 

 

In this class you will design and make jewellery pieces, as you learn to work as a jewellery designer-maker.

  You will learn:

·  how to use the design process to create original design ideas

·  about the materials we will use and how to work with them

·  to create your own pieces of jewellery in the Tawa College workshop

   

Photographs are from Pinterest are indicative only of wooden jewellery. https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/300615343889184591/

Course Overview

Semester A
This is a half year course.

Recommended Prior Learning

You will need a strong interest in design and in being creative. You will also need to be able to be adaptable in your thinking and enjoy problem solving.

You will need to be a responsible student to work in our workshop, and be able to work alongside other students to create a strong learning community, where we support each other to succeed.

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

There is a contribution of $40 toward the materials used in the take home components.
Students will be required to purchase stationery items on the school stationery list.

Pathway

Assessment Information

Students will be assessed using the Technology curriculum levels and achievement objectives.