Design and technologies / Foundation to Year 2 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills

Curriculum content descriptions

Sequence steps for making designed solutions and working collaboratively (ACTDEP009)

Elaborations
  • checking that planned features have been included in design plans and drawings by referring to identified criteria for success including care for the environment
  • using lists or storyboarding when planning and making, for example when planning an electronic planting calendar
  • recording the procedure for making a product, for example a recipe or instructions for making a container
  • identifying roles for each member of a group when working collaboratively
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Cooperation,  Planning,  Design,  Procedures,  Operations management

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