Construction and mechanical technologies

Students will:

• Critically analyse their own and others' past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective use of planning tools.
• Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.

TP: 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).
• Undertake ongoing experimentation
  and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialing 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.

TK: TECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTS

Students will:

• 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.

TK: TECHNOLOGICAL MODELLING

Students will:

• Understand that functional models are used to represent reality and test design concepts and that prototypes are used to test technological outcomes.

NOT: CHARACTERISTICS OF TECHNOLOGY

Students will:

• Understand the interdisciplinary nature of technology and the implications of this for maximising possibilities through collaborative practice.

VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Students will:

• Demonstrate skills in, and understanding of, fundamental drawing techniques to present visual information

BRIEF DEVELOPMENT

Students will:

• 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).

• 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:

• 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.
• 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.

Students will:

• Use planning tools to develop an initial plan for the project
• Research design elements and apply the information to fashion.
• Explore existing garments and critically analyse, using design language.
• Research influential fashion designers and analyse their garments using design language.
• Develop a brief – establish a conceptual statement and specifications
• Generate conceptual design sketches (informed by research of designers) that effectively communicate the specific design features of their garments.
• Develop a pattern from skirt blocks
• Test design ideas through functional modelling by constructing a toile
• Understand the basic construction techniques used to make a garment
• Evaluate the outcome against the specifications of the brief to determine the outcome's potential fitness for purpose.
• Use planning tools to develop an initial plan for the project
• Identify a need or opportunity from the context (Shelter)
• Explore existing solutions
• Establish a conceptual statement and specifications
• Understand how materials are selected based on desired performance criteria
• Generate conceptual design sketches that effectively communicate the specific design features of their garments.
• Develop a pattern
• Test design ideas through functional modelling.
• Establish final specifications reflecting the environment the outcome will be situated
• Evaluate the outcome against the specifications of the brief to determine the outcome's potential fitness for purpose.

Brief Development

• Students will justify the nature of an intended outcome (e.g. a fashion
  garment or accessory featuring embellishment) in relation to the need or opportunity and
  justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community
  considerations.

Planning for Practice

• Students will critically analyse their own and others' past and current
  planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective use of planning tools.
• Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an
  outcome through to completion.

Outcome Development and Evaluation

• Conceptual design
  
  • Students will critically analyse their own and others' outcomes to
    inform the development of ideas for feasible conceptual design.
  • Undertake ongoing
    experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and
    the intended physical and social environment.
  • Use the information gained to select,
    justify, and develop a final conceptual design of a fashion garment or accessory that
    features embellishment.
  • Evaluate the conceptual design against the specifications to
    determine the proposed outcome's potential fitness for purpose.
• Prototype
  
  • Students will continue to undertake ongoing experimentation and functional
    modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback.
  • They will use the information gained
    to select, justify, and develop a prototype of a fashion garment or accessory (featuring
    embellishment) to be tested in its intended physical and social and environments.
  • Evaluate the prototype's fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation
    using feedback from stakeholders.

Technological Products

• Students will 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.

• Technological Products
• Construct a Resistant Materials Product
• Outcome Development and Evaluation – Prototype
• Planning for Practise
• Construct a Resistant Materials Product

Technological Practice

• Brief Development
  
  • 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 considerations.
• Planning for Practice
  
  • Critically analyse their own and others' past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective
    use of planning tools.
  • Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to
    completion.
• Outcome Development and Evaluation
  
  • Critically analyse their own and others' outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
  • 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 Knowledge

• Technological Modelling
  
  • Understand that functional models are used to represent reality and test design concepts and that prototypes are
    used to test technological outcomes.
  • Technological Products Understand that technological products are made from materials that have performance
    properties.

Nature of Technology

• Characteristics of technological outcomes
  
  • Understand that some technological outcomes can be perceived as both product and system. Understand how
    these outcomes impact on other outcomes and practices and on people's views of themselves and possible
    futures.