This document provides instructions for students to design and make a snakes and ladders game that promotes Fairtrade. It outlines the steps students should take, including: understanding who they are designing for by creating a customer profile; writing a design specification; producing a step-by-step plan; and making and evaluating their final product. The document also includes worksheets and templates for students to fill out as they work through each step of the design process.

1. Fairtrade – Snakes and ladders
game

2.  Gain knowledge and understanding of the
design and make process
 Understand who you are designing for by
creating a customer profile
 Write a design specification
 Produce a step-by-step plan for making
your product
 Make a quality product

3.  Becoming a Fairtrade School is great fun and
will count towards other schemes such as
Eco-schools or sustainable schools.
Once you become a Fairtrade School, you will be sent a certificate and will
be able to the logo on your headed notepaper, websites and newsletters.

4.  Design and make a snakes and ladders
game that promotes Fairtrade. Use the
cards form the Fairtrade website to help
plan your game. Use recycled items if
possible.

5.  http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/get_involved/fair
trade_fortnight/fairtrade_fortnight_2008/do
wnloadable_resources.aspx

6.  Fill in the interesting ideas sheet, product
analysis, product specification sheet, the
customer profile board, the concept board,
the generating ideas board, the planning
grid and the evaluation sheet. (These can
be completed on the computer)
 What Product Analysis and Focused
Practical Tasks could be carried out by
primary school pupils?

7. Use words and pictures to create a mood board within the cogs to
illustrate your two favourite designs.

8. 1. What type of
product is it and
what is it made
from?
4. Draw and
measure the
product.Write
down the
measurements on
your drawing.
5. Disassemble
your product and
draw all of its
components be
2. Who would use
this product?What
words describe
them?
3. Suggest tools
and equipment
that could be used
to make your
product.

9. Who is going to buy and use your
product? What do they like? What
don’t they like? Write, draw and
stick pictures here to show the type
of customer you are designing for:
Do a survey. Ask some members of
the group what they like etc. Add
their comments into the speech
bubbles below:

10. How can you join materials to make your product?
Look at the information you have already collected.
Write, draw and stick examples here to show the
different joining methods you could use.

11.  Using your research, specification and customer profile, draw at several
different design ideas for a product. Remember to consider the
sustainability of your product. Label your drawings and explain any
changes that you decide to make to your design.
Remember to evaluate your work as it develops. Ask yourself;
1. Which is your favourite design and why?
2. How could you improve it?
3. List at least three pieces of equipment .
would you use to make it?
4. What other features can you comment on?

12.  Draw and write a step-by-step plan for
making your product.


13.  How could you have improved your work on this project? Try to think about the way
you worked, rather than about your final product.
 Design work Practical work
 Identify two faults with your design Identify two faults with your design work and
 work and suggest improvements you suggest improvements you could make.
 could make.
 1) Fault: 1)Fault:

 Improvement: Improvement:
 2) Fault: 2) Fault:
 Improvement: Improvement:
 Personal Evaluation
 Overall, how do you think you tackled this project? What were your strengths and weaknesses?
What did you enjoy most? What did you find easy? What was difficult? Try to be as detailed as
possible.