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Design and technologies / Year 9 and 10 / Design and Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Curriculum content descriptions
Investigate and make judgments, within a range of technologies specialisations, on how technologies can be combined to create designed solutions (ACTDEK047)
Elaborations
- examining factors influencing the design of a product that has an explicit environmental emphasis, for example the low-flush toilet
- critiquing product manufacturing processes in relation to society, ethics, and sustainability factors, for example a mechanised entertainment system; an interactive multimedia product to teach a concept to a student in a country in Asia
- critiquing the social nature of services, for example a signage system to manage students and community members during a school function (signs may include words, pictures and/or braille); organisational system for an aged-care facility
- critiquing environments in relation to preferred futures in relation to society, ethics and sustainability practices, for example the refurbishment of a local playground; the re-design of a local wetland
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Design, Engineering, Deductive reasoning