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AC9TDE8P03: Year 7 Technologies Content Descriptor – Producing and implementing
AC9TDE8P03 Year 7 Technologies

AC9TDE8P03 – Year 7 Technologies: Producing and implementing

Strand
Processes and production skills
Substrand
Producing and implementing

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

select, justify and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment, skills and processes to safely make designed solutions

Elaborations

  • developing innovative ways of manipulating technologies by comparing and choosing the most appropriate options to design a solution using traditional or contemporary materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and considering alternatives including emerging technologies that could be substituted to reduce waste or time
  • practising techniques to improve expertise, for example handling animals, cutting and joining materials such as metal, textiles, timber
  • developing technical production skills (techniques) and safe independent inclusive working practices to produce quality solutions designed for sustainability
  • identifying and managing risks in the development of various projects, for example working safely, responsibly, cooperatively and ethically on design projects; assessing and responding to uncertainty and risk in relation to long-term health and environmental impacts, for example ensuring appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) is worn or that ventilation is appropriate where solvents, glues or 3D printers are used
  • considering how to improve technical expertise required to use tools or equipment needed to design a solution, for example using an online tutorial to learn to use software for design or production

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.