Dear Grade 6 Please find the powerpoint slides available for you to to reflect on and catch up on any work. The slides demonstrate how you should analyse a book cover

1. Ready for learning?
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• Have a question? Hands up!
• No talking while teachers talking
• Don’t be shy to ask questions
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Grade: 6: Deadline: 9Th March
Design Technology
Unit 3: Book Cover Design
Designers adapt the form in which
information is communicated in order to
make it accessible to the end-user.
Statement of Inquiry
Unit 3 Brief: A book publisher has asked you to redesign their book and present this with a
range of options (different designs, colours, fonts etc) to fit a more modern design
Key Concept – Communities
Related Concepts – Adaption/Form
Global Context – Identities and Relationships
This should be copied in
your
sketchbook
Inquiry Questions:
• Who is your target audience?
• What design tools are you using?
• How are you going to develop your design
and create your outcome?
• What colour scheme will you use?
• What ideas and background research have
you gathered?

2. Week 1 – 2: Inquiring and
Analysing Criterion A
Week 3 – 4: Developing Ideas
Criterion B
Week 5 – 6: Creating the
solution Criterion C
Week 7 – 8: Finishing your
design Criterion D
How I assess you?

3. Please use this rubric to
determine how I assess
you and achieve the
highest mark possible

4. Objective: What is book cover design?
Aim:
• Understand what steps there in creating a
book cover
• Analyse 3 book publishers & choose 1
book

5. Expectations:
• Contribute to ideas with your hand up
• Praise other students for their work
• Represent the IB learner profile – Caring, Principled, balanced,
communicator etc.
• Represent grade 9 and the high standard of work included in
every subject.

6. Rules:
• Be on time for class (this affects the teachers starting time)
• No mobile phones allowed at any time (School Rules)
• Listen to instructions first time and please don’t talk when the teacher is
talking.
• No shouting out or talking whilst the teacher is talkin (its disrespectful)
• No across the room conversations.
• When using school or your own laptops (for work only)no browsing additional
sites or YouTube unless instructed.
• Do not dispute the teacher for rewards (game room, gym) or free periods
• No Chewing

7. Ask Yourself…..
Some questions to ask your self?
How does my research link to my final design?
What problem have I found? And what solutions
have I found to tackle the problem?
Does my research backup my claim?
What can I learn from others on this topic?

8. Why do we research? • To understand why we are are doing
this
• To find solutions to problems
• To open our minds to different issues.
• Develop our thinking skills and digital
literacy
Research
Develop
Create
Evaluate
Research should link to your design
Research should allow you to develop ideas
Reflect on the whole journey

9. How do we research? (Criteria A)
Inquiry Questions/Brainstorm
Why is target audience important before
designing a book?
How does reading a book benefit me?
What is the purpose of a book cover?
How does the colour scheme affect the book?
What type of font are they using on a book
cover?
Don’t judge a book by its cover? – What does
it mean?
How many people read in the world?
What?
How?
Why?
Where?
Who?

10. How do we research? (Criteria A)
Methods in Researching:
Print then annotate information.
Research and paraphrase
information into your notebooks.
Copy information from sources,
highlight and annotate.

11. And how do we reference (Criteria A)
Find a well know source, copy information onto word or print
off the page (stick in your book)
"How Colour Psychology Can Be Applied To Mobile Apps". Top
Mobile App Developers In London, Award Winning Development,
2019, https://thisisglance.com/how-colour-psychology-can-be-
applied-to-mobile-apps/. Accessed 6 Nov 2019.
MLA Referencing

12. What do I do next?
You should highlight key information and
annotate (remember to reference)

13. Your task is to analyse 3 book covers – Criteria A
Colour Scheme
Text/Font
Image
Author
Inquiry questions:
How does the design make your feel?
Which target audience is it for?
What can I learn from this?
What is the image trying to tell you?
What is the colour scheme of the book?
What can I learn from this design?

14. Week 1 – 2: Inquiring and Analysing
Criterion A
Mind Map: Book
publishers,
designers, colour
schemes & target
audience
Analysis 3 books:
Text, font, shape,
colour, blurb (In
detail)
Secondary Research
on book publishers,
designers that
influence you and
purpose of books in
society
Colour scheme and
target audience for
book
YOU MUST Complete this by WEEK 2

15. Week 3 - 4: Developing ideas
Criterion B
1 X Final Design
Sketch
(In detail)
DON’T FORGET TO ANNOTATE
Font and colour testing – Explain
why?
Then choose 1 and
create
3 x Large Sketches
Front & Back
(In detail)
8 x Thumbnails Front
and Back
(Book cover ideas)
2 x Book blurbs
(draft)

16. Week 5 - 6: Creating the solution
Criterion C
1 x final design printed and photographed
As part of your development you should try to create a few different
designs using different text and styles.
Testing different designs w/
annotation

17. Book Cover Measurements
Spine – 13.3cm – 16.2cm
Width – 30cm x Height 20cm

18. Week 7 - 8: Evaluation
Criterion D
Self evaluation on how you found the unit, what
did you learn, how can you relate it to Global
Context? What design process are you using?
I will provide you with a self evaluation form.
Please also refer to the checklist as this slide does
not include everything

19. Today’s Activity
1. Mindmap Ideas for your own Book Cover:
- Your Target Audience
- Your Colour scheme
- 3 Ideas and then choose 1
Inquiry Questions
What is my target audience?
How does an educational app benefit me?
What is the purpose of an app?
How does the colour scheme affect the
app?
What type of font are they using in the
app?
2. 8 Thumbnails
- Your Colour scheme
- 3 Ideas and then choose 1

20. What your final design will look like

21. Homework
How did you find today?
What 2 things can you tell me about words in design?
What did you learn about looking at objects closely?
Research 3 book publishers and choose 1 book
document this in your sketchbook