Design and Technologies / Year 7 and 8 / Processes and production skills / Evaluating

Curriculum content descriptions

develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (AC9TDE8P04)

Elaborations
  • developing design criteria collaboratively to evaluate designed solutions in terms of accessibility, aesthetics, functionality and sustainability, for example recording design goals from people interviewed as prospective users of the finished product, service or environment or including life cycle assessment criteria
  • developing design criteria including Safety by Design principles, for example do the ideas promote safety through prevention, protection and proactive change
  • re-evaluating, iterating and modifying design processes to improve efficiency and increase production, for example when mass producing a product for an enterprise or improving sustainability
  • evaluating designed solutions and processes and transferring new knowledge and skills to future design projects, for example considering project planning skills learnt in producing an engineered product and using them in future projects
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Self-evaluation,  Sustainable development,  Sharing (Cooperation),  Cooperation,  Design briefs

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