1. Creative and Media: Level 2 Higher Diploma Unit 3: Artefact
Level 2 Higher Diploma Creative and MediaUnit 1: Scene
3.1.1 Go back in time!
Student Book
pp 78–81
On page 81 of the Student Book you will find some information about the Industrial
Revolution – a time that saw big changes in the way products were made and how people
lived.
Today you are going to consider what the processes of producing artefacts may have been
like before machines were invented. Your teacher will give you an everyday household
object. Look at it carefully and answer the questions below.
What materials do you think Clay.
this object is made from?
Do you think this object I think this object is made by machine.
was created by hand or by a
machine?
Now imagine you are designing an object to do the same job that this item does (e.g.
scissors = to cut paper) but without machinery to help you make it.
What materials would you make Clay.
your object out of?
Would it look different from the Slightly it has less perfections.
object you have in front of you?
Would it operate differently? No.
How would you make this object I would mould it with my hands.
without using machines?
Draw a picture of what your handcrafted object might look like below:
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