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Design and technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Curriculum content descriptions
Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025)
Elaborations
- generating a range of design ideas for products, services or environments using prior knowledge, skills and research
- developing alternative design ideas and considering implications for the future to broaden the appeal and acceptance of design ideas
- analysing and modifying design ideas to enhance and improve the sustainability of the product, service, environment or system
- representing and communicating design ideas using modelling and drawing standards including the use of digital technologies, for example scale; symbols and codes in diagrams; pictorial maps and aerial views using web mapping service applications
- experimenting with materials, tools and equipment to refine design ideas, for example considering the selection of materials and joining techniques to suit the purpose of a product
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Problem solving, Technical drawing, Modelling, Graphic arts, Computer graphics