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AC9TDE8P04: Year 7 Technologies Content Descriptor – Evaluating
AC9TDE8P04 Year 7 Technologies

AC9TDE8P04 – Year 7 Technologies: Evaluating

Strand
Processes and production skills
Substrand
Evaluating

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

develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions

Elaborations

  • • developing design criteria collaboratively to evaluate designed solutions in terms of accessibility, aesthetics, functionality and sustainability, for example recording design goals from people interviewed as prospective users of the finished product, service or environment or including life cycle assessment criteria
  • • developing design criteria including Safety by Design principles, for example do the ideas promote safety through prevention, protection and proactive change
  • • re-evaluating, iterating and modifying design processes to improve efficiency and increase production, for example when mass producing a product for an enterprise or improving sustainability
  • • evaluating designed solutions and processes and transferring new knowledge and skills to future design projects, for example considering project planning skills learnt in producing an engineered product and using them in future projects

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.