Jigsaw Puzzles
Khrimsen Arnold Comer and Chulan with
her
finished Frangipani flower puzzle.
Linnit Chea, Chulan Mar, and Tobias Green
Bailey Road Primary and Intermediate School
Years 7/8 (10 weekly half-day lessons)
Teacher: Vanita Narsai
Linnit, Chulan and Tobias were asked to each produce a wooden jigsaw puzzle based on consultation with a new entrant pupil as a client. Vanita encouraged her students to consider a broad multicultural theme for their designs as a reflection of the make-up of the school, and new entrants in particular.
While all of the students had a broad understanding of what a stakeholder might be within the context of Technological Practice, none had previously focussed on producing something for someone else.
After exploring aspects of jigsaw puzzles, and visiting Puzzles4Education, the students questioned the new entrant class about their likes and dislikes: what they were interested in; what they liked doing; and the images they might like to see on a jigsaw puzzle. Based on this information the students designed the imagery for the jigsaw puzzle and identified the production stages.
Linnit and Yutao Wei with a finished
Monster House Halloween Puzzle.
Through documentation, Linnit, Chulan and Tobias justified the choices they'd made throughout their engagement with this brief. Using the information they gained from talking to the new entrant class they clearly stipulated what they were producing and why, as well as how they were incorporating the required aesthetic attributes into their final designs. By using the photos from the visit to Puzzles4Education they identified the key stages they had to go through to produce their outcome.
Each student came up with individual responses to the stakeholder feedback. Linnit decided to make a puzzle using tiny pieces, as her stakeholder liked hard jigsaw puzzles. Chulan chose a frangipani flower: "because it's a flower from all around the Pacific Islands, and I chose the colours because they make you feel like you're in paradise". Tobias said that he "discovered the juniors are very shy and friendly. They also like bright colours and a lot of glitter. They like to share puzzles with their friends".
Teacher comment
Within this context, the best part for these students was going to the stakeholders and talking to them. Gathering stakeholder information from five-year-olds for these students was just an amazing experience, which was reflected in their outcomes. Then going back and showing the five-year-olds what they'd done. It was an absolute buzz to watch – this unit was so satisfying for them.
Tobias gathering stakeholder feedback from Kashvi Dayal
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