Samples of students' final projects |
Concept: Designing
a box for a food product. Student Outcomes: Students will design and illustrate a box for
a food product. Focusing Event: Students
will be exposed to examples of food product designs, such as Ritz crackers,
cereal boxes, etc. Students will be
given a planning sheet where students will develop their ideas for their
project by picking foods and coming up with adjectives to describe them. Procedures: Show students examples of
common food products that are packaged in boxes. Have a discussion with them about the
following: fonts, colors, designs, and interesting points. Hand out the planning worksheet. Upon completion of worksheet, students will
create 4 sketches of possible designs.
Have students written a paragraph explaining what their product is, the
font, colors, and design they will use and explanation of their marketing. Give
a demonstration on how to make templates for their boxes. Students will create
their own boxes and design. Closure/Assessment: Self-assessment rubric, teacher assessment
rubric, class presentation, written paragraph.
Materials: colored pencils,
markers, colored paper, pen and pencil, planning worksheet, 80 weight paper.