Bags of Difference, and Influential Designer Garment
Students explore a variety of materials when undertaking two major units of work. Each unit of work requires students to research, design, develop, and construct a technological outcome. They are encouraged for one of their major to develop the outcome for a client, rather than for themselves. Assessment of achievement standards are embedded across the two major units of work.
BRIEF DEVELOPMENT
Students will:
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Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms of key
stakeholder feedback and wider community consideration
OUTCOME DEVELOPMENT AND
EVALUATION
Students will:
Critically analyse their own and others' outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes (conceptual design
and prototype).
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Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and
trialling in the physical and social environments. - Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a final outcome.
- Evaluate this outcome's fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders.
TECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTS
Students will:
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Understand how materials are formed, manipulated, and transformed in different ways, depending on their properties, and
understand the role of material evaluation in determining suitability for use in product development.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
TECHNOLOGICAL OUTCOMES
Students will:
- Understand that some Technological Outcomes can be perceived as both product and system.
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Understand how these
outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people's views of themselves and possible futures.
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
Students will:
- Demonstrate skills in, and understanding of, fundamental drawing techniques to present visual information.
CONSTRUCT A TEXTILES PRODUCT
Students will:
- Implement basic procedures to make a textiles product.