By the end of Level 2, students describe the purpose of familiar designed solutions and how they meet the needs of users and affect others and environments. They identify the features and uses of some technologies for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.
With guidance, students create...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2
By the end of Level 10 students explain how people working in design and technologies occupations consider factors that impact on design decisions and the technologies used to create designed solutions. They identify the changes necessary to designed solutions to realise preferred futures they...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 9 and 10
By the end of Level 4 students explain how solutions are designed to best meet needs of the communities and their environments. They describe contributions of people in design and technologies occupations. Students describe how the features of technologies can be used to create designed solutions...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4
In Levels 9 and 10, students use design thinking, design and technologies knowledge and understanding, processes and production skills to produce designed solutions to identified needs or opportunities of relevance to individuals, local, national, regional and global communities.
Students undertake...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
In Levels 3 and 4, students develop ways of thinking about their peers and communities and as consumers and a sense of self and ownership of their ideas. Students explore and learn to harness their creative, innovative and imaginative ideas and approaches to achieve designed solutions. They do...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
In Levels 7 and 8, students investigate and select from a range of technologies. They consider the ways characteristics and properties of technologies can be combined to create designed solutions to problems for individuals and the community, considering society and ethics, and economic, environmental...
Level description | Technologies | Design and Technologies
In Design and Technologies, students are actively engaged in the processes of creating designed solutions for personal, domestic and global settings for a sustainable future. For younger children, this usually involves personal and family settings, where there is an immediate, direct and tangible...
Overview material | Design and Technologies
In an increasingly technological and complex world, it is important students develop knowledge and confidence to critically analyse and respond creatively to design challenges. Technologies can play a crucial role in both enriching and transforming societies, and in the management...
Overview material | Design and Technologies
The Design and Technologies curriculum is organised by the three related strands of Technologies and Society, Technological Contexts, and Creating Design Solutions. The Technological Contexts and Creating Design Solutions strands are further organised by sub-strands, as set out below.
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Overview material | Design and Technologies
VCDSCD028 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4 | Creating Designed Solutions | Investigating
VCDSCD018 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Creating Designed Solutions | Investigating
VCDSTC037 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 5 and 6 | Technologies Contexts | Materials and technologies specialisations
VCDSTC015 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Technologies Contexts | Food and fibre production
VCDSTC034 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 5 and 6 | Technologies Contexts | Engineering principles and systems
VCDSTC017 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Technologies Contexts | Materials and technologies specialisations
VCDSTC046 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 7 and 8 | Technologies Contexts | Food and fibre production
VCDSTC014 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Foundation to Level 2 | Technologies Contexts | Engineering principles and systems
VCDSTC058 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 9 and 10 | Technologies Contexts | Food specialisations
VCDSTC026 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Levels 3 and 4 | Technologies Contexts | Food specialisations
VCDSTC011 | Technologies | Design and Technologies | Level D | Technologies Contexts