Design and Technologies / Levels 9 and 10 / Creating Designed Solutions / Investigating
Content description
Critique needs or opportunities to develop design briefs and investigate and select an increasingly sophisticated range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to develop design ideas
Elaborations
critiquing the design of new products to identify how well design ideas respond to sustainability issues
critiquing a range of design and technologies ideas, for example assessing those that draw on the intellectual property of others, exploring how well the ideas respond to international and Australian standards
considering the needs of community groups to identify rich design tasks
examining relationships of properties for complementary materials for products, for example examining compressive and tensile strengths of materials
identifying appropriate tools, equipment, techniques and safety procedures for each process and evaluating production processes for accuracy, quality, safety and efficiency
