Processing technologies

TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE

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.

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 considerations.

Outcome development and evaluation

Students will:

• 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

Students will:

• Understand the role and nature of evidence and reasoning when managing risk through technological modelling.

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 systems

Students will:

• Understand the implications of subsystems for the design, development, and maintenance of technological
  systems.

NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY

Characteristics of technology

Students will:

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

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.

Knowledge of product preservation, packaging and storage

• Students will demonstrate
  understandings of basic concepts and techniques used in the preservation, packaging and
  storage of products.

Implement a process

• Students will implement basic procedures to make a processed
  product.
  

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 considerations.

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.
• Evaluate this outcome's
  fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback.

Technological Modelling

• Students will understand the role and nature of evidence and
  reasoning when managing risk through technological modelling.