Design and Technologies

By the end of Level 2, students identify and describe the purpose of familiar products, services and environments. For each of the 4 Technologies Contexts sub-strands, they identify the features and uses of technologies, and create designed solutions. Students explore and select design ideas based on their personal preferences, and communicate these using simple models and drawings. Students follow sequenced steps to use tools and materials to safely produce designed solutions.

By the end of Level 4, students explain how people design products, services and environments to address needs or opportunities that consider sustainability. For each of the 4 Technologies Contexts sub-strands, they describe the features and uses of technologies, and create designed solutions. Students describe needs or opportunities for designing, and they produce, document and select design ideas against design criteria. They communicate design ideas, using models and drawings as well as annotations and symbols, and they test materials and processes needed to create designed solutions. Students plan and sequence steps, and use technologies and techniques to...

By the end of Level 6, students explain how people address ethical considerations when designing products, services and environments to meet the needs or opportunities of communities. For each of the 4 Technologies Contexts sub-strands, they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and work collaboratively and in teams to create designed solutions to address identified needs or opportunities. Students work collaboratively to negotiate and develop design criteria that include worldviews or sustainability considerations. They select and explain design ideas, and communicate these design ideas to an audience using technical terms and graphical representation...

By the end of Level 8, students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments that address ethical considerations. For each of the 4 Technologies Contexts sub-strands, they discuss how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities. Students generate and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against their own and others’ predetermined design criteria for ethical considerations, including sustainability and worldviews. They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms, graphical representation techniques and appropriate attributions....

By the end of Level 10, students explain how people consider factors that affect design decisions, and the technologies used to design and produce products, services and environments that address ethical considerations. They explain and critique the contribution of innovation, enterprise skills and emerging technologies to sustainability and worldviews. For one or more of the Technologies Contexts sub-strands, students discuss the features of technologies and their appropriateness for purpose, and use design thinking to develop and co-develop designed solutions based on an analysis of identified needs or opportunities. Students create, adapt and refine design ideas, processes and...