Situation: Educational ToyEducational Toys are used in a variety of situations. You need to identify an area where educational toys are used and identify a problem that needs to be solved  Select an objective below: Objective 1 Objective 2Objective 3Objective 4Objective 5Objective 6 Objective 1 Task No 1 Time: 30 minutesInvestigate what is meant by Educational Use a dictionary and write a definition of Educational. Draw a spider diagram with Educational at the centre.Investigate what is meant by Toys.Use a dictionary and write a definition of Toys. Draw a spider diagram with Toys at the centre.Educational Toy Spider Diagram may include:machines, mechanisms, lever, wheel, axle, pulley, automatic, lacking originality, sound, colour, texture, numbers, alphabet, counting, energy, helpful, environment, man made etc. Toys Spider Diagram may include: Entertainment, fun, interesting, play, by watching others, sensory experiences, experiment, imitating, using models, educational, therapeutic, attractive, tactile, cost, materials, etc.Select from the spider diagram appropriate words and write in sentences and or graphic forms.Homework Decide what type of educational toy you will research. Produce a well designed and presented front cover for the design folder. You may find a computer helpful and use cut and collage techniques. On each page of your folder include your Name, Centre Number, Candidate Number, Page Number.Task No 2 Objective 1 Time: 40 minutes Lesson Decide what you are going to design and make and say why you think it is needed. For example. A educational toy.............. Use drawings / photographs / words / graphs of other peoples ideas to help you describe:· where the educational toy will be used. For example at home, in the street, by a playgroup, at school etc.· who will use it. For example the age of children for which it is intended, or parents, or teachers. Write about where people could buy the educational toy you will design and make.Homework Look at Task 2. Use a computer to draft out your design brief. Write about - Who, what, where, when, why, how. Bring it to the next lesson and discuss it with your teacher before redrafting it for your folder.Task No 3 Objective 1 Time: 20 minutes Re edit your design brief describing what you are going to design and make. Remember that you need to think about who will buy the educational toy. Your design brief must say WHO the toy is for, WHERE it will be used, Why you consider there is a need for it, WHEN it is likely to be used and some indication of HOW it might achieve its purpose.For example. I am going to design and make a educational toy, that will be used to teach .......... (person or group) when learning (What) The educational toy will be used ……. (describe where / when it will be used). The educational toy will describe how it will work. Homework Collect information about different educational toys similar to the one you will design.Back to top Objective 2Task No 4 Objective 2 Time: 30 minutes Select from the ideas you collected for homework any that you think might help you generate ideas for the educational toy that you will design
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and make. For example:· toys that include mechanisms;· toys that include electronics and mechanisms.HomeworkCollect pictures / information on existing products that are similar to what you have identified on your spider diagram so that you can evaluate them.Task No 5 Objective 2 Time: 60 minutesCarry out some market research on the type of educational toy you will design and make. Write a questionnaire that you can use when talking to experts, people who will use the educational toy, children (appropriate age range) teachers, parents, people who make / sell educational toys.Use open type questions to find out what the requirements ...

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