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Design and technologies / Year 9 and 10 / Design and Technologies Processes and Production Skills
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Curriculum content descriptions
Critique needs or opportunities to develop design briefs and investigate and select an increasingly sophisticated range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to develop design ideas (ACTDEP048)
Elaborations
- critiquing the design of new products to identify how well design ideas respond to sustainability issues
- critiquing a range of design and technologies ideas, for example assessing those that draw on the intellectual property of others, exploring how well the ideas respond to international and Australian standards
- considering the needs of community groups to identify rich design tasks
- examining relationships of properties for complementary materials for products, for example examining compressive and tensile strengths of materials
- identifying appropriate tools, equipment, techniques and safety procedures for each process and evaluating production processes for accuracy, quality, safety and efficiency
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Scientific inquiry, Critical thinking, Materials, Design, Fibres (Materials), Deductive reasoning