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SOI: Various inputs impact the way in which culture is expressed through the form of the products that the
culture creates.
Task Description
GOAL To create a model prototype of a boat that can be made of waste.
SITUATION You are in the first few weeks of a new job as a PRODUCT DEVELOPER.
Developing Ideas X
1. Develop a Design Specification
2. Design Ideas
3. Present the Chosen Design
Evaluating X
1. Evaluate the Success of the Solution
States the need for a solution to a Outlines the need for a solution to Explains the need for a solution to Explains and justifies the need
problem for a specified a problem for a specified a problem for a specified for a solution to a problem for a
client/target audience client/target audience client/target audience client/target audience
Task Clarification:
Student justification: I think I can get 8 because I explain and Teacher Grade:
justify the problem and solution clearly.
C CLIENT: Who is the client? The client is going to be APIS because once the boat is built, we’re going to test it in the pool of APIS.
People in APIS can use the boat.
Why are you interested in designing I am interested in designing the boat for APIS because: First, I think reducing plastic waste is a good
for this client? thing; plastic need to break down in a very long time. So using waste plastic to make new product is
going to make the plastic bottle not a waste and won’t cause pollution. Second, I think making boat is
fun because connecting the plastic bottles together and make it float on the water is very interesting.
E evidence,
EVIDENCE OF THE NEED: What
observations, or ideas do
We have wasted plastic everywhere in the world, also in APIS, we can just use the wasted plastic to be
the raw material. The boat needs to be able to float on the water, and people also needs to be on the
you have about the nature of the boat. The plastic bottle which is made of plastic and easy to be waste can float on the water. We can
problem? combine these two ideas together, we can make a boat that is made of plastic bottle. The wastes are
reused so we reduced the waste, and the boat that can float is done too.
Why has the client asked you to
solve this problem?
E EXPLANATION OF
IMPORTANCE: Why is this
I think the problem is a really important one to solve because the problem is about the plastic waste.
Plastic waste is a very important thing because the plastic takes a thousand years to break down, it
problem an important one to solve? pollutes the nature a lot. At the same time, because most of the plastic product can only be used once,
people are wasting lots of them and the pollution has become more and more serious. So if we can
How will solving this problem help reuse the waste plastic and make it a new product, we can reduce the waste of plastic and the
you understand the Global pollution of nature. As I am solving the problem, I can understand the Global context Personal and
Context? cultural expression by: expressing my esthetics and creativity to make nature better which means I
made a boat that has its own beauty and it can also reduce plastic waste to protect the nature.
EXISTING PRODUCT ANALYSIS 1: Recycled plastic bottle boat
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/632755816367313427/?lp=true
AESTHETICS: CUSTOMER:
-This body of the boat is made of plastic bottle and the seat is made of -People whoever wants to use it.
cystosepiment.
-The head of the boat lifts up.
-The bottom of the boat is flat so that it can float.
-There’s a back behind the boat so that people can lean on it and
wouldn’t fall into the water.
-The cap is still on the bottle so that the air are saved in the bottle and it
can float.
COST: ENVIRONMENT:
-In the resources it says “Recycled plastic bottle boat”, so the person -Water.
who made it didn’t buy any bottle. If only for one tape, it’s going to cost -Lake.
10 Baht. -The area that doesn’t have too much waves.
SAFETY: SIZE:
-If the person on the boat is too heavy, the boat wouldn’t be able to -Medium size.
support that person, so the bottles would break and the person might
fall into the water.
FUNCTION: MATERIALS:
-The boat can float on the water. -Plastic bottles.
-People can transfer on the water with the boat.
-You can go fishing on the boat if you want too.
-Can pick up more wasted plastic bottles in the water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAbFGixLhz8
AESTHETICS: CUSTOMER:
-This boat is special because it has a little house on it. The house is -Anyone who wants to play.
made of plastic bottle too, it has walls and a roof, and there’s openings
on the wall too. This little house can provide a place to rest, get rid of
the sun and rain.
-The body of the boat is made of plastic bottles too.
-The bottom of the boat is thick and flat.
-The head of the boat does not lifts up, it is still flat.
-The boat is enclosed by lifted plastic bottles.
-There’s a paddle to keep the boat going forward.
-The bottles are stuck together by the tape.
-There’s lifebuoys on the boat.
COST: ENVIRONMENT:
-Wasted plastic bottles. -Lake.
-A paddle. -Wide water area.
-Some Lifebuoys.
SAFETY: SIZE:
-It could be very safe because the layer is really thick, but if the person -The boat is almost as tall as a human.
on the boat don’t keep balance, the person might fall. -The boat is very thick and long.
FUNCTION: MATERIALS:
-Can float on the water. -Plastic bottles.
-People can transfer on the water with this. -Ropes
-Fishing -Lifebuoy.
-To pick up more wasted plastic bottles in the water. -Paddle.
-Tapes.
https://mama-beach.com/2015/02/15/curabitur-nisi-ultricies/
AESTHETICS: CUSTOMER:
-This product is more like a raft, it is just a flat board. -People who want to use it can use it, it is only for reducing the wastes.
-The floor of the raft is consists of the upside down bottles so the bottom
of the plastic bottles form the flat floor.
-There’s bottles on the side of the raft and they are fixed by iron plates.
-The raft looks very simple so it has the beauty of simple.
COST: ENVIRONMENT:
-Wasted plastic bottles(no costs). -In the water.
-Iron plates. -The water area needs to be wide.
-In the lake
-There shouldn’t be waves other wise the raft would turn over.
SAFETY: SIZE:
-The raft is only made of one layer of plastic bottles, so it might not be -Medium size
that strong, it might flip over in the water if the person doesn’t keep the -Can support number if people.
balance.
-The protection is too less, the people on the raft might fall off into the
water easily.
FUNCTION: MATERIALS:
-The raft is for people to transfer on the water. -Plastic bottles.
-The raft is light so it is easy to take with, people can take it everywhere. -Iron plates.
-The other function of this product is it reduced plastic waste which is
good for nature.
-Fishing.
-Pick up more wasted plastic bottles in the water.
Nickie. (n.d.). Recycled plastic bottle boat! A total Must do :-D. Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/632755816367313427/?lp=true
Interesting ficus. (2018). BOAT FROM PLASTIC BOTTLES - DIY. Today we are going to be making a Yacht, a giant yacht from plastic bottles.
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAbFGixLhz8
(n.d.). Retrieved from https://mama-beach.com/2015/02/15/curabitur-nisi-ultricies/
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS 2: DEVELOP A DESIGN BRIEF - A.4
Level 1-2 Level 3-4 Level 5-6 Level 7-8
Develops a basic design brief, Develops a design brief, which Develops a design brief, which Develops a detailed design brief,
which states the findings of outlines the analysis of relevant explains the analysis of relevant which summarizes the analysis of
relevant research research research relevant research
Task Clarification
HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE THE CONCEPT OF “FORM” IN YOUR OWN WORDS?
Form is an organization that or its own rules to accomplish things. Form is similar to systems. For example, we use the form of finding and
analyzing existing products to get ideas of what to design. Form is the way to express things.
I found three existing products in the research. The existing products are all every kind of plastic bottle boats. The first boat is just an original boat,
has a flat bottom with wall surrounded and lifted head.The plastic bottles are stuck together by tapes The second existing product also has a flat
bottom and surrounded walls too, but the head is also flat. The added part is a hut on the boat which is very useful, people can go into the hut to
prevent sunshine and rain. The last product is interesting too, the floor of the boat is made of upside down plastic bottles, so the small bottle
bottoms form the wide boat floor. The one thing different is that this boat doesn’t have walls surrounded, so it is more likely a raft.
WHAT WERE THE MOST INTERESTING AND LEAST INTERESTING PRODUCTS/IDEAS YOU FOUND? - (analyze your findings)
The most interesting product is the BOAT FROM PLASTIC BOTTLES - DIY which is the second product because this product got a little hut on it.
The hut is really useful because people can prevent sunburn and get wet by rain.The idea is fun, hiding into a little hut while floating on water
must be really interesting. The less interesting product is the Recycled plastic bottle boat which is the first product. That product is less interesting
because it looks very normal, no more difference between general boats, just not creative enough to impress people.
HOW DO YOU THINK YOU WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM? WHAT ARE YOUR GENERAL IDEAS FOR YOUR PRODUCT?
I think I will solve the problem because I get the existing products now, so I can research more about the boat and make it with the wasted plastic,
and as long as I make the plastic bottle boat, I recycled plastic bottles to make new stuff which is reducing waste and pollution. The general idea
for my product is to reduce plastic waste by reusing the waste plastic bottles to make new product.
The culture is the human culture, always protecting nature which is the place where we live. The culture influenced my product, or my product is
going to be designed because of the culture. Wasted plastic is polluting nature, so reduce plastic waste is the way to decrease the waste.
Because of this, I reuse the waste plastic bottles to make the plastic bottle boat.
DEVELOPING IDEAS 1: DEVELOP A DESIGN SPECIFICATION - B.1
My final Design will be shaped by the RESOURCES available for its construction.
DESIGN IDEA #1
This is my first design. All the information such as the picture from many angles, the length and width, the introduction, the material, the structure
details and the way we are going to build it are in the picture above.
The advantages of this design are:
-It is very easy to make for our group. The structure is very simple.
-People can understand what this design do the first time they see it.
-It is very easy to use. Just like normal boats, sit inside and paddle it.
-It is very safe because there are bottle on the edges so the person on the boat wouldn’t fall off from the boat.
DESIGN IDEA #2
This is my second design. All the information about the boat are in the picture.
The advantages of this design are:
-The boat is very creative. The shape and structure of the boat is very interesting and rare.
-The boat is going to be safe too. Because the shape of this boat is a semicircle, it would never turn over in the water and the person inside would
never fall off.
The limitations of this design:
-This boat is too difficult to make. The structure is complex and we won’t find a good way to connect the bottles.
-I think people wouldn’t understand what is this immediately.
DESIGN IDEA #3
This is my third design. All the information about the boat are listed in the picture.
The advantages of this design are:
-This design looks very nice and regular. The front of the boat make it more like a boat.
-This design is going to be very safe because there are bottles around at the back and the sides, so the person inside wouldn’t fall off.
-People could recognize that it is a boat and use it immediately.
-The material is saved. For the bottles around, we can only put them at the place that the person has the most possibilities to fall, so we don’t
need that much bottles to cover the whole edges.
DEVELOPING IDEAS 3: PRESENT THE CHOSEN DESIGN - B.3
Justifies the selection of the chosen Presents the chosen design and Presents the chosen design and
design with reference to the design justifies its selection with reference to justifies fully and critically its
specification. the design specification. selection with detailed reference to
the design specification.
Task Clarification:
● https://www.tinkercad.com/
● https://vectr.com/
CHOSEN DESIGN
Key Features:
● The bottom of the boat is flat and it’s arranged with vertical
bottles.
● The head of the boat is like an angel just like normal boats. The
bottles are all heading the top point. Apart from the head part,
the body part of the boat is just going to be a rectangle.
(copy your DESIGN SPECIFICATION here and give your CHOSEN DESIGN a score for each specification. Explain and/or Justify the scores.)
I think my design can get an 8 because it is made by students in APIS, the students in APIS have the culture in their mind, so they of course
applied their culture into the boat. There student hand made of the boat express the APIS culture.
My final Design will be shaped by the RESOURCES available for its construction.
8 because our boat would only use the plastic bottles and the tapes. We will find old plastic bottles to be the material which means all of them are
reduced.
8 because me and my teammates are a team and we all want a good product so we all work hard together to get a good one. Also, we made a
plan already that is distributing the work.
7 because my boat is very interesting because it is made with plastic bottles and it can float with a person inside. There are meaning inside the
boat too, we are reducing the plastic waste to protect the earth from being polluted, people would like it. But maybe some people would not like
the boat because everyone has they own minds.
8 because this design is very safe as above, there are strong protections. The bottom of the boat is going to be very tight too, water won’t come in
and the bottle are able to float the boat and the person up. The material are not going to be heavy too,
CREATING AND IMPROVING THE SOLUTION 1: Weekly Building Journal - C.2
Task Clarification:
Student justification: I think I can get 8 because I showed the process of Teacher Grade:
me and my group working on building the design in detail. The way we
build the boat is very good. There are lots of good changes to make the
boat better too.
Date: Oct. 2
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● This is the first day of building the boat, ● Not yet.
so the first thing we need to do is to
collect the bottles that we need.
Date:Oct. 16
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● We did the same as what we did in ● This is a new idea we came out with.
building the body. We still connect two Because we think only one layer for the
bottles in that way. boat is not enough but we also don’t
have enough bottles, so we add a seat
● We are going to label them like this in on the body so that where Jun sit is
the picture, in the middle of the boat. going to be two layers and it won’t use
that much bottles.
Date:Oct. 28
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● We are adding bottles at the sides to ● We are making the seat wider by
make the seat wider. This is how we adding more bottles. We are adding
are labeling them. more because we have bottles now
and we think the person on the boat
won’t fall off that easy if we do this.
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● We connect the new ones with the old ● No
ones with tapes, so there are 9
columns total now.
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● Here is a paddle for the person on the ● There is a paddle for the person on the
boat. This is connected in the same boat to move forward.
way that we connect the other bottles.
Date:Oct. 30
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● This is the bottles on the edge. First, ● We did stick bottle in front and at the
we connect 2-3 bottles together as a back because there are no more
group, and then connect all the groups, bottles and we also think only sides is
so there would be a complete column. ok.
●
● For sticking the column onto the body,
we use a long tape to stick them all
with the body first, and then we use
short tapes to stick to the bottom of the
bottle with the boat so the bottles can
stand.
Step-by-Step Description: Description of Changes (if any):
● We are done with the edge bottles! ● We stuck the seat and the boat
together.
● We tape around the seat and the body
of the boat to make them stay with
each other well.
Outlines how the solution could Describes how the solution could Explains how the solution could
be proved be improved be improved
Task Clarification:
● The body of the boat is too wide and big, we should make it thinner.
● I think this might be helpful because in the water, the smaller things move faster because it doesn’t have that much weight, a little power
can make it go forward and move fast.
● We can make it only 7 columns, just enough for a human to sit on it.
● Our greatest success in this unit is our boat is able to go onto the water and it is not sinking. This success is made of the process that we
are making the boat. In the process, we plan carefully what to do can make the boat have better function and we are improving the boat a
lot on the way. Our boat is designed stable and it can float well. When we are building it, we make it in the way we design it. We were
building it very carefully, we tape the bottles very tight to prevent the water to come inside. There are two layers to make the boat float
well. The design and the process we were building it is very nice, so the product that is has a very good function exist.
● The biggest challenge in this unit is finding the material for the boat because I am a boarding student so I can barely bring any bottles, and
others can not find that much resources to find bottles too. Finding used bottles is a hard thing, people usually just throw them away, but
reduce this kind of thing is what we are doing, so it is very challenging.
(sentence starter: “My greatest success/challenge was _____ because _____ .”)
Statement Various inputs impact the ways in which culture is expressed through the form of the products that the culture creates.
of
Inquiry
What are the three most important skills you used during this unit? Explain:
This unit we worked on the ATL SKILLS of collaboration. Which one was the hardest? Why?
Collaboration is the hardest because when people are working together, they always have different ideas and perspectives. So when their ideas
are really different and they disagree with each other, there might be conflicts between people. On the other hand, if one person in the group do
not do work and the work needs multiple people to accomplish, it’s going to become very hard for the people that work.
(sentence starter: “This unit I found the skill of ______ to be most challenging because ______ .”)