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

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Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority

Curriculum content descriptions

Generate, develop, test and communicate design ideas, plans and processes for various audiences using appropriate technical terms and technologies including graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP036)

Elaborations

using a variety of critical and creative thinking strategies such as brainstorming, sketching, 3-D modelling and experimenting to generate innovative design ideas
considering which ideas to further explore and investigating the benefits and drawbacks of ideas, for example using digital polling to capture the views of different groups in the community
identifying factors that may hinder or enhance project development, for example intercultural understanding
developing models, prototypes or samples using a range of materials, tools and equipment to test the functionality of ideas
producing annotated concept sketches and drawings, using: technical terms, scale, symbols, pictorial and aerial views to draw environments; production drawings, orthogonal drawings; patterns and templates to explain design ideas
documenting and communicating the generation and development of design ideas for an intended audience, for example developing a digital portfolio with images and text which clearly communicates each step of a design process

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Personal and social capability
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capability

ScOT terms

Problem solving, Technical drawing, Modelling, Graphic arts, Computer graphics

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