9en Individual craft artefact

In the central contents in slöjd focus is on how to work with different materials and how they are produced regarding sustainability. Creating craft artefacts on your own makes it possible to be restraint, reuse, recycling and upcycle. In ninth grade when you have learnt different techniques, learnt about material, about how design can be interpreted in your craft artefact and tried projects that are more challenging. It is time to deepen the knowledge on how techniques and materials can be combined. You will need to be a bit curious, take own initiatives and try a creative and problem-solving way of thinking. Look through your closet if you have something you can redo or change. Be a bit curious on possible combinations when you are in town or on the internet.

Content/ Target

You decide the content yourself based on your idea. You plan and produce one bigger or several smaller processes in craft. You're expected to think through what material you need and what techniques to use as well as what tools you need to produce your craft artefact.

 

Success strategies

Plan a project on your own from the teachers suggestions and consider different options regarding technique, shape, form and coloursetting.

Actively listen to and follow instructions, both oral and written instructions and individual. Use your classmates as resourses when learning and be a recourse for your classmate. Bring and use your computer for slöjdportfolio and slöjdlexikon.

Think about working thorougly and in a safe functional way.

Use your knowledge from earlier years of craft but also challange yourself to new techniques and more complex work depending on your skills and time.

Use lessons efficiently and prepare before class.

Use your slöjdportfolio to keep track of your process so that you keep up with your work. Also analyse your work process using the support questions.

Think about that you are the one that lead the process forward and work independently solving problems during that time. Don´t forget to use your teacher and classmates in that process for guidance.

 

Assessment

How you give form to and produce your craft artefact.

How you reflect on choice of material, cultural connection, symbols and colours and shape.

How you handle tools and machines.

The quality of your handicraft when you sew, embroider, knit or chrochet.

How you try and retry during your process.

In what way you contribute to formulating action alternatives that lead the process to improvement.

How you use your creativity and independence.

How you make judgments about your process in slöjdportfolio in text and pictures using term specifics.

 

Resourses

You have access to material in the textile classroom or other material that you look up yourself, for example using clothes you have grown out of or an old bag that you want to redo. In textiles, you can find literature to use or you can login to slöjdlexikon to look for ideas and instructions.

Links

https://www.slojd.nu/ 

username: Rödabergsskolan

password: 12345

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMBFtDeVEO4 

Uppgifter

After 4 weeks-check up!

Respons på ditt arbete efter 4 veckor. Besvara frågorna i Slöjdportfolio:/ Response to your work after 4 weeks. Answer in Slöjdportfolio. 

1. Vilket projekt har du valt? Varför? / Which project have you chosen? Why? 
2. Har du valt teknik?/ Have you chosen technique? 
3. Kan du din teknik?/ Do you know the technique?  
4. Är du igång?/ Have you started? 
5. Vad behöver du göra för att komma igång och driva ditt arbete framåt?/ What do you need to do to get started and to make sure you are the one who is in charge of the process? 

Idea, planning and work process

Develop an idea and plan your process

You are given an assignment in textiles and from that idea you are asked to develop your own idea for a craft artefact. Be sure to sketch or make a drawing consider color setting, shape, design and material.

Describe your idea in slöjdportfolio by making a new “alster” where you add pictures of your planning and important steps in your process.

Answer the questions: What are you making? What were your thoughts when you decided what to do? Why did you pic the color, shape, symbol and material you did?

Describe how you are going to proceed forward in you logbook every week where you describe what you have done during the lessons and what your plan is for the following week.

The work process

You are now working with your craft artefact and implement the practical steps according to the instructions, both oral or video (Slöjdlexikon) instructions and written instructions. At some points you get tutoring by your teacher and at others you work on your own.

You continue to write your logbook each week and you send it to your teacher each week.

During the process you answer the questions: What tools and equipment are you using? How do you reason when you decide what to do? Do you change anything during your process and if so why? How does your work effort affect your result?

Textile fibers and what they are used for

Make a project/alster in Slöjdportfolio called textile fibers and answer the following questions.

1. Name 3 different textile fibers that are used in our everyday fabrics used for clothing and other textiles as curtains, sheets, pillowcases…

2. Find out what qualities the fibers you choose have and why they are used as they are.

3. Think of something you can make in textiles, a craft artefact, and explain what material you would choose and why? What technique would be appropriate?

You can find information in Slöjdlexikon, if you know Swedish. Material-textila material.

If you don´t know Swedish you can look at the link below or google search for answers.

https://textechdip.wordpress.com/contents/textile-fiber/