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Design and technology are integral parts of our society and culture. To ensure that coming generations will still be empowered to create, shape, select and use technology for the improvement of the quality of life within the environment, it is important to establish a specific focus in the curriculum 

Design and Technlogy Year 7 - 10 Syllabus

Design Projects must be selected from the following Prescribed Contexts

Agriculture

The Built Environment

Clothing and Accessories

Engineering Systems

Food

Health and Welfare

Information and Communication

Leisure and lifestyle

Manufacturing

Transport

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Ag-Plot Blackboard

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Prescribed Context: Agriculture

  • Advertising
  • Aesthetics

Skills: Design Make Assess (DMA)

  • Design:......Discuss the concept, draw various designs on paper first.
  • Make:.......Wood shaping using coping saws, jigsaw, file and sanding
  • Assess:.......The completed signs in situ. in the ag-plot

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Fishing lures

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Prescribed Context: Leisure and lifestyle

  • Corrosion
  • Bouyancy

Skills: Design Make Assess (DMA)

in a prepared logbook students kept a detailed diary of the entire DMA process

  • Design:... Discuss and demonstrate the concept, compared shop built lures, bib designs and bobbing action
  • Make:....Wood shaping using coping saws, jigsaw, file and sanding, drillin and fixing bib and swivels, paint
  • Assess:.... Testing and evaluating at the river
 

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Balance Man

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Prescribed Context: Leisure and lifestyle

  • Balance
  • Centre of gravity
  • Oxy acetylene welding safety / brazing of wire joints and weights
  • Metal lathe safety / turning of 16mm mild steel weights

Skills: Design Make Assess (DMA)

  • Design:.....Discuss the concept, of centre of balance and gravity (eg. trapeze artists),
  • Make:.....Demonstrate and safety instruction on oxy-acetylene brazing and metal lathe turning,
  • Assess:.... Testing and evaluating of the completed figures.

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Balancing dolphin

Balancing man

Balancing balloon

Balancing big man

 

Boomerang

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Prescribed Context: Engineering Systems

Skills: Design Make Assess (DMA)

 
 
   
   

 

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