KS4 Kew's grand designs
Explore the magnificent buildings at Kew, and consider what they contain and why.
Overview:
Explore the magnificent buildings at Kew and consider what they contain and why. For over 250 years, we have protected and showcased plants from around the world.
Many of these plants are housed in our magnificent glasshouses: which are both architecturally significant and technologically advanced. Your pupils will explore these buildings, considering what they contain and why.
Working in the Temperate House, pupils will design a new structure to protect endangered plants and consider what the next generation of buildings at Kew might look like.
Pupils will explore the magnificent buildings at Kew, considering what they contain and why.
Please note, elements of this session will be delivered outside.
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Develop enquiry skills.
- Explore creative design ideas that they can expand upon back in the classroom.
- Identify and solve their own design problems.
- Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and the work of others.
- Increase their understanding of why plants and fungi matter.
Keywords:
Architecture, design, prototype, innovation, ecosystem, environment, Millennium Seed Bank, glasshouse, temperate, rainforest, endangered, extinction
Curriculum links
AQA
Art and design
Skills
- Apply an understanding of relevant practices in the cultural and creative industries to their work.
- Use drawing skills for different needs and purposes, appropriate to the context.
Knowledge and understanding
- Contemporary and/or historical environments, situations or issues.
- The different purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design in a variety of contexts and as appropriate to learners' own work.
Fine art
- The creation of site-specific work that uses or accentuates the natural landscape or manmade environment to create atmosphere and communicate ideas.
Architectural design
- The use of the elements of three-dimensional design to develop and create building structures.
- The use of a range of architectural design materials, tools and techniques such as digital and non-digital design methods, graphic and construction materials and the generation of plans, working diagrams and models with consideration of sustainability and related environmental issues.
Environmental/landscape design
- The use of the elements of three-dimensional design to create exterior living, recreational and working environments.
- The use of a range of environmental/landscape design materials, tools and techniques such as sculptural materials, digital and non-digital design methods, graphic and construction materials and the generation of plans, working diagrams and models with consideration of sustainability and environmental issues.
OCR
Art and design
Skills
- Apply an understanding of relevant practices in the creative and cultural industries to their work.
- Use drawing skills for different needs and purposes, appropriate to the context.
Knowledge and understanding
- Contemporary and/or historical environments, situations or issues.
- The different purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design in a variety of contexts and as appropriate to learners’ own work.
Three-dimensional design
- Learners must explore practical and relevant critical and contextual sources such as the work of historical and contemporary three-dimensional designers and the different purposes, intentions and functions of three-dimensional design as appropriate to their own work.
Environmental/landscape design
- Learners must demonstrate the ability to work creatively with processes and techniques appropriate to the chosen area(s) of study such as: computer-aided design, model-making, prototyping, constructing, assembling. An understanding of the relationship between form and function is essential.