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Design and technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Curriculum content descriptions
Analyse how motion, force and energy are used to manipulate and control electromechanical systems when designing simple, engineered solutions (ACTDEK031)
Elaborations
- investigating influences impacting on manufactured products and processes such as historical developments, society, new materials, control systems and biomimicry, for example the development of velcro
- experimenting to select the most appropriate principles and systems on which to base design ideas, for example structural components to be tested for strength
- calculating an engineered system’s outputs, for example speed, brightness of light, volume of sound
- producing prototypes and jigs to test functionality, including the use of rapid prototyping tools such as 3D printers
- using code to control systems, for example code to program a microcontroller or a simple, object-based coding application to program a system such as a remote-controlled car or simple robotic arm
- investigating components, tools and equipment, for example testing the durability of batteries, determining the effective range of wireless devices
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Motion, Materials, Mechanical engineering, Electromagnetism