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AC9TDE8P02: Year 7 Technologies Content Descriptor – Generating and designing
AC9TDE8P02 Year 7 Technologies

AC9TDE8P02 – Year 7 Technologies: Generating and designing

Strand
Processes and production skills
Substrand
Generating and designing

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

generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools

Elaborations

  • • using a variety of strategies such as brainstorming, sketching, 3D modelling and experimenting to generate innovative design ideas to present to others
  • • considering which ideas to further explore and investigating the benefits and drawbacks of ideas including identifying factors that may hinder or enhance project development, for example using digital polling to capture the views of different groups in the community to inform the production of a solution designed with 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, perspective drawings, orthogonal drawings; patterns and templates to explain product design ideas
  • • documenting and communicating the generation and development and selection of design ideas for an intended audience, for example developing a digital portfolio with images and text which clearly communicate each step of a design process

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.