Manheim Township

Middle School

Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Class Load: 43 minute Periods

6 sections of 8th Grade Technology Education: Communications

97 8th grade Students total throughout the 6 class periods

Lessons/Unit Design

Personalized Logo Unit - 10 days

Design Brief

GIMP

Program Used

At Manheim Township Middle School, I had the amazing opportunity to teach 8th graders a professional program called GIMP. I used this program to implement my Unit for Student Teaching. I focused on what a logo was and what a logo represented, the engineering and design process, and reviewed PARC (Proximity, Alignment, Repetition and Contrast) from earlier in their quarter. What I loved about this project is it allowed the students to take an idea, design it and be able to leave with a physical product once the unit was completed. As a result of their designs, the students printed their designs onto shirts, they were able to wear!

A Student's Project- Beginning to End

Design Log, Rubric, Final Design

I color-coded the rubric, to assist the students in the different sections

Yellow: Tools they had to use

Green: How they used the tool (what image)

Purple: Design Layout

Blue: Repetition of Tools/steps, they rewrote the tools/steps once they completed it.

Example: My Design

This was my Final Design that I had and exampled for the class, on the right was my original design that is reversed ready for printing onto a t-shirt. On the left is the 2nd final design, updated by a request of my students. We got to step 4: Improve and one of my students asked why there wasn't a bow on my design, because I wore a bow almost everyday, so I added one into my design. Every image on their design had to represent them, and they had to have at least 8 images, and 1 text.