Design and technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills

Curriculum content descriptions

Independently develop criteria for success to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions and their sustainability (ACTDEP038)

Elaborations
  • developing criteria for success to evaluate the success of designed solutions in terms of aesthetics, functionality and sustainability
  • considering how to improve technical expertise
  • evaluating designed solutions and processes and transferring new knowledge and skills to future design projects
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Human impact,  Sustainable development,  Design,  Criteria for success

Interactive

Design thinking across the curriculum

This cross-curriculum resource is designed to introduce Stage 2, 3 and 4 students to the design thinking process through a series of videos and interactive activities. This resource is also downloadable as a SCORM file: the downloaded version will only work if you upload it to a webserver, such as Moodle or Canvas.