This document outlines an 8-week project for students to form racing teams and design model Formula 1 cars. It includes the following key details: - Weeks 1-3 focus on forming teams, deciding roles, and designing uniforms and initial car designs. - Week 4 involves teams presenting their progress to classmates for feedback. - Weeks 5-6 involve designing sponsorship packages, finalizing car designs, and working on pit displays and presentations. - Weeks 7-8 involve assembling cars, practicing presentations, and completing pit displays for judging. Various templates, examples, criteria, and tasks are referenced to guide students through the project.

1. NAS 2015-2016
Year 6

2. Resource
Manager
Team Manager
Manufacturing
Engineer
Design Engineer
Graphic
Designer
• Form a team
• 3 – 4 members
• Think of a team name
• Decide roles
FLYING
ROCKETS
Wk 1 Task 1
Team Plan

3. Week 1 Task 1
Team Plan
What is your name?
Why did you choose it?
Is it original?
What does it tell us about your team?
What is everyone’s role and why are you suited to
those roles?
Read the rules and regulations!

4. ROLES
Week 1 Task 1
Team Plan
No One Role is More Important than Another!
TEAM MANAGER
• Team spokesperson.
• Makes sure work is
done on time.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
• Team logo design
• Team identity
• Team display
RESOURCE MANAGER
• Gets everything the team
needs
DESIGN ENGINEER
• Designs the car body
• Designs the wheels and axles
MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
• Manufactures the car
• Applies wheels and axles
• Paints final car

5. Create your own TEAM IDENTITY
• Team uniform designed by you
• Team logo / team name
• Team colours
Week 2
Team identity

6. Task 2
Uniform/Team Identity
Look at examples here.
-What does your uniform look like?
-Where did you get the ideas?
-How did YOU come up with the design?
-How will you arrange the sponsors on your uniforms?

7. Week 3
Car Design
• You need to get folder to keep all of your ideas, designs, logos
together!
• Begin to design the model F1 Car
• Consider the dimensions of the car using the rules and regulations.
• Keep all of your ideas in your portfolio.
READ THE RULES AND REGULATIONS!

8. Car Design links
See some examples here:
Print off initial design templates for children here to use and decide on
car design .
Once you have a finalised design you need to use PowerPoint to
transfer your design to the template here.

9. Week 4- Review of tasks
As a team you need to present your ideas to your class members.
You must complete a short 1.30min presentation about your progress
as a team, making sure that you have covered all the aspects from tasks
1-3.
Using marking criteria here - you will then be graded by your colleagues
and teacher who will give you feedback to use and improve your task.

10. Week 5
Sponsorship- how much will t-shirts/ baseball caps cost to get printed, where
will you source the materials? How will you get your sponsors?
- Pricing structure: what will your sponsors get for their money?
- Will you have Bronze/ Silver/ Gold/ Platinum packages or a category of
your choice.
Children to create a spreadsheet of their costings- see example here
Children to write a persuasive letter to sponsors asking for sponsorship to
help realise their designs.

11. Week 6
Final designs to be saved onto the shared F1 Folder for your class-
clearly labelled with your team name. DEADLINE: Monday 22nd Feb
Children to work on verbal presentation using PowerPoint or Keynote
speaker- MAX 3 MINUTES. Use the rules and regulations to help you
structure your work- see next slide for criteria.
Children are also to work on Pit Lane display- see examples here. This
will be used in your presentation and you will be judged using the scale
criteria here.

12. Presentation criteria
Verbal Presentation:
Engaging / Interesting 5
Relevance 5
Team member participation 5
Structure and timing 5
Total out of 20
Multimedia presentation:
Evidence of team plan and team work 5
Application of Design process & evaluation 10
Quality and relevance of Team identity components 5
Total out of 20

13. Week 7
2D cutter booked for week.
Once template is cut- assembly your chassis and put your design
template onto the chassis, see example here.
Continue working on your Pit Lane display and your verbal
presentation.

14. Week 8
Children to practice verbal/multimedia presentation in class and check
against the marking criteria here.