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Design and technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills

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Negotiate criteria for success that include sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (ACTDEP027)

Elaborations
  • independently and collaboratively identifying criteria for success, processes and planning, for example using visual representations such as a flowchart
  • evaluating the suitability of materials, tools and equipment for specific purposes
  • reflecting on how well their designed solutions ensure safety and wellbeing of users and consumers and meet the needs of communities and different cultures
  • considering the criteria for success in relation to the benefits and costs of production processes, the environmental impact, future use and application, and social values and ethics of clients
  • evaluating products, services and environments from a range of technologies contexts with consideration of ethics and sustainability
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

Sustainable development,  Design,  Criteria for success

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