1.1. Develop confidence as critical users of technologies and designers and producers of designed solutions
1.2. Investigate, generate and critique innovative and ethical designed solutions for sustainable futures
1.3. Use design and systems thinking to generate design ideas and communicate these to a range of audiences
2. Content Structure
2.1. Design and Technologies knowledge and understanding – the use, development and impact of technologies and design ideas across a range of technologies contexts
2.2. Design and Technologies processes and production skills – the skills needed to create designed solutions.
3. Learning in Design and Technology
3.1. Technologies Concepts
3.2. Design briefs
3.3. Factors influencing design decisions, progression of production skills and managing projects and collaboration.
4. Rationale
4.1. Design and Technologies actively engages students in creating quality designed solutions for identified needs and opportunities across a range of technologies contexts.
4.2. Students consider the economic, environmental and social impacts of technological change and how the choice and use of technologies contributes to a sustainable future.
4.3. They apply design and systems thinking and design processes to investigate ideas, generate and refine ideas, plan, produce and evaluate designed solutions.
