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Design and technologies / Year 3 and 4 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills

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Curriculum content descriptions

Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions (ACTDEP016)

Elaborations

using appropriate technologies terms to confidently describe and share with others procedures and techniques for making, for example cutting and joining materials
exploring ways of joining, connecting and assembling components that ensure success, and the impact digital technologies have had on these processes
using tools and equipment accurately when measuring, marking and cutting; and explaining the importance of accuracy when designing and making, for example creating a template, measuring ingredients in a recipe, sowing seeds
selecting and using materials, components, tools, equipment and processes with consideration of the environmental impact at each stage of the production process
demonstrating safe, responsible and cooperative work practices when making designed solutions

General capabilities

Personal and social capability
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Materials, Fibres (Materials), Tools, Work health and safety

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