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Design and Technologies Level Description

In Foundation to Level 2 students explore and investigate technologies, including their purpose and how they meet personal and social needs within local settings. Students develop an understanding...

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Design and Technologies Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs (VCDSTS013)

Technologies Contexts

Engineering principles and systems
  1. Explore how technologies use forces to create movement in designed solutions (VCDSTC014)
Food and fibre production
  1. Explore how plants and animals are grown for food, clothing and shelter (VCDSTC015)
Food specialisations
  1. Explore how food is selected and prepared for healthy eating (VCDSTC016)
Materials and technologies specialisations
  1. Explore the characteristics and properties of materials and components that are used to create designed solutions (VCDSTC017)

Creating Designed Solutions

Investigating
  1. Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and the technologies needed to realise designed solutions (VCDSCD018)
Generating
  1. Visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling (VCDSCD019)
Producing
  1. Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely (VCDSCD020)
Evaluating
  1. Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment (VCDSCD021)
Planning and managing
  1. Sequence steps for making designed solutions (VCDSCD022)

Design and Technologies Achievement Standard

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 designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts. They describe given needs or opportunities. Students create and evaluate their ideas and designed solutions based on personal preferences. They communicate design ideas for their designed solutions, using modelling and simple drawings. Following sequenced steps, students demonstrate safe use of tools and equipment when producing designed solutions.

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