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AC9TDE8K03: Year 7 Technologies Content Descriptor – Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems
AC9TDE8K03 Year 7 Technologies

AC9TDE8K03 – Year 7 Technologies: Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Technologies context: Engineering principles and systems

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

analyse how force, motion and energy are used to manipulate and control engineered systems

Elaborations

  • • analysing how wind turbines harness the motion of propellers to transform wind energy into electricity, and how this energy is used to sustainably power communities classified as remote, such as on Waiben (Thursday Island) in the Torres Strait Islands and in Gawa on Elcho Island near the northern Arnhem Land coast
  • • investigating the technologies in a control system for an identified need or opportunity and user, for example the Corriong or Millowl (Phillip Island) penguin weighbridge that enables collection of data about penguin weight and foraging duration
  • • experimenting to select the most appropriate principles and systems on which to base design ideas, for example testing structural components for strength
  • • testing functionality of an idea by producing prototypes and jigs, including the use of rapid prototyping tools such as 3D printers
  • • calculating an engineered system’s outputs, for example speed, brightness of light, volume of sound to determine when the system might fail
  • • experimenting with control systems to understand motion, for example programming a microcontroller or an object-based programming application to control a system such as a remote-controlled car or robotic arm
  • • investigating components, tools and equipment in terms of force, motion or energy, for example testing the durability of batteries or determining the effective range of wireless devices

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASTECTDEY78
Year 7 Technologies Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures. For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities. Students create and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools. They independently and collaboratively document and manage production processes to safely produce designed solutions.