About

We all like to eat out, and when we are away from home we sometimes have no choice but to eat out. When we eat out, the meal will be served in a dinner set with plates and cups. Some dinner sets are disposable, that means they are thrown away after use. Disposable plates and cups used to be made from plastic, but that was causing pollution, so we need to use other materials instead of plastic. Paper is a good material for a disposable dinner set because it is cheap, lightweight, and thin.
 

Your task

Design a paper dinner set for any meal of the day. Your dinner set must have two different plates, and one cup. Think about what meal your paper dinner set will be for, what food and drink will it serve? How to make your dinner set strong and useful using only paper? Make your paper dinner set out of paper or thin card and test it. Do this design topic on your own, or together with a classmate.
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Follow the design steps

To design something well, do it step-by-step and use the methods from the Design Thinking for Schools website. There are four design steps. The first step is LEARN. To design something, you must first learn about it. There is much to learn on any topic, and it is always interesting. Learning will help you to understand the thing that you are designing, so you can do a good job. The second step is DRAW. Try to think of as many different ideas as you can while you draw them with pencil on paper. Keep drawing until you have some ideas that you really like. Improve your ideas and combine them into a single excellent idea. Drawing is easy and fun. Enjoy it! The third step is MAKE. Make the thing that you are designing to show your teacher and classmates. You can only tell if your idea works by making it. Improve your idea while you are making it. Making something with your hands is fun too! The fourth step is TRY. Once you have made something, you should try it to see if it works or not. You can also let someone else try it to see what they think. When you try, you will often find ways to improve your design idea. That will make you a better designer.
 

​​​​​​​Note for teachers

Read the guide for teachers on Safety for the MAKE Step for Level II to safely supervise this design task.