St Patrick’s Day Badge - Lower Primary STEAM
In this STEAM activity, students learn about Irish culture and the history of St Patrick’s day before designing a traditional St. Patrick’s Day Badge.
Learning goals
- We are learning to generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas.
- We are learning to generate and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing, or modelling.
- We are learning to generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling.
- We are learning to use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions.
- We are learning to evaluate the success of design ideas and solutions.
- We are learning to use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions, including their care for the environment.
Curriculum alignment
Generate and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing or modelling, including using digital tools
AC9TDEFP01 9Generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas, and use materials, equipment and steps to safely make a solution for a purpose
AC9TDE2P02 9Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
AC9TDE2P03 9Evaluate the success of design ideas and solutions based on personal preferences and including sustainability
ACTDEP006 8.4Generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling
ACAVAM106 8.4 Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists ACTDEP008 8.4Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment
ACAVAM107 8.4 Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks ACTDEP007 8.4Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
ACAVAM108 8.4 Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audienceAustralian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Modifications
A series of stencils can be used for creating the badge, which would make the activity more cut and paste for those students who might otherwise struggle to develop or realise their own vision for their badge.
Extensions
The complexity of the final design task is completely at your description and it can be opened up to be done at home, or over the course of an afternoon in the classroom. You may choose to push your students by making them create their badges out of unfamiliar materials than what you usually use in the classroom (for example textiles).