Unit: Textiles Year 8: Glorious Bags

This unit has been created to encourage students to investigate the origins of fabrics, their properties and how these fabrics can be utilised in conjunction with textiles technology, instruments and machinery to construct useful textiles items. The unit will also encourage students to use their ideas and resourcefulness to design, embellished and use their own ideas to construct a practical bag. The students will be encouraged to utilise the design process to appropriately ascertain their requirement to ensure that the final product meets with the design brief criteria. Students will be encouraged to investigate and develop their understanding of the use of fabrics, the properties of these fabrics and the origins of the initial fibres used to create these fabrics. They will be asked to use a variety of embellishing applications and sewing techniques to produce an effective and appealing product. The creativeness of middle phase learners has determined the reason for the construction of this unit of work. Their ability to take un-0inspiring and plan boring items and make them zing is my inspiration for encouraging their creativeness. Students will be encouraged to learn through a variety of source such as experiments, research and observations. These learning opportunities will be as hands on as possible, as this is how many of the middle phase learners profiled have identified is their preferred way to learn.