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Design and technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
Curriculum content descriptions
Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions (ACTDEP026)
Elaborations
- matching material and joining techniques to the design intention, for example accurately cutting and sewing the fabric pieces to make a community banner or joining components to produce an electric circuit
- working safely, responsibly and cooperatively to ensure safe work areas, for example the safe use of equipment when making a water-resistant, floating craft or a model of an environmentally sensitive outdoor shelter
- using appropriate personal protective equipment required for the use of some tools and equipment, for example protective eyewear
- manipulating materials with appropriate tools, equipment and techniques, for example when preparing food, cultivating garden beds, constructing products
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Materials, Tools, Work health and safety, Procedures