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Level A (Towards Foundation)

Level A Description

In Level A, students are exposed to technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet every day personal needs.

Students experience the characteristics and properties of some familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:

  • Engineering principles and systems
  • Food and fibre production
  • Food specialisations
  • Materials and technologies specialisations.

Students are exposed to designed solutions that meet their needs.

Level A Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Experience how people create familiar designed solutions to meet their needs (VCDSTS001)

Technologies Contexts

  1. Experience the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions in at least one technologies context (VCDSTC002)

Creating Designed Solutions

  1. React to a designed solution that has been created and produced safely to meet their needs (VCDSCD003)

Level A Achievement Standard

By the end of Level A, students react to significant designed solutions that meet their needs.

With guidance, students experience designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They begin to communicate their needs and indicate a choice or preference through accept and reject actions.

Students react to the use of tools and equipment and experience the sequenced steps involved in producing a designed solution.

Level B (Towards Foundation)

Level B Description

In Level B students explore technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet personal and social needs.

Students examine the characteristics and properties of some technologies from one of the technologies contexts:

  • Engineering principles and systems
  • Food and fibre production
  • Food specialisations
  • Materials and technologies specialisations.

With teacher support, students communicate simple design ideas.

Students experience how designed solutions meet their needs.

Level B Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Explore the use of familiar designed solutions to meet their needs (VCDSTS004)

Technologies Contexts

  1. Explore the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions in at least one technologies context (VCDSTC005)

Creating Designed Solutions

  1. Experience and explore how designed solutions are created and produced safely to meet personal needs (VCDSCD006)

Level B Achievement Standard

By the end of Level B, students are using some familiar designed solutions appropriately to meet their needs.

With guidance, students explore designed solutions in at least one technologies context. They experience designed solution ideas and select materials and components based on personal preferences.

Students follow a design process step by step and use tools safely when prompted.

Level C (Towards Foundation)

Level C Description

In Level C students explore and investigate technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet needs.

Students describe the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:

  • Engineering principles and systems
  • Food and fibre production
  • Food specialisations
  • Materials and technologies specialisations.

With teacher support, students communicate simple design ideas. Students are introduced to different forms of evaluating designed solutions based on personal preferences.

Students, with teacher support, follow directions to complete their own or group design ideas or projects.

Level C Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Match familiar designed solutions to the personal needs they meet (VCDSTS007)

Technologies Contexts

  1. Examine and indicate the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions in at least two technologies contexts (VCDSTC008)

Creating Designed Solutions

  1. Examine and indicate how designed solutions are created and produced safely to meet needs (VCDSCD009)

Level C Achievement Standard

By the end of Level C, students use and identify the purpose of familiar designed solutions. They match some designed solutions to a need.

Students use designed solutions in at least two technologies contexts. With guidance, students reflect on created and produced designed solutions, developing ideas based on personal preferences. They begin to follow simple sequenced steps and teacher direction to use tools and equipment safely when producing designed solutions.

Level D (Towards Foundation)

Level D Description

In Level D students explore and investigate technologies, including its purpose and how technologies meet personal and social needs within local settings.

Students explore the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions from one of the technologies contexts:

  • Engineering principles and systems
  • Food and fibre production
  • Food specialisations
  • Materials and technologies specialisations.

With teacher support, students communicate simple design ideas and begin to evaluate designed solutions based on personal preferences.

Students begin to plan their design idea with teacher support, and follow simple steps and directions to complete their own or group design ideas or projects.

Level D Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Explore how people create familiar designed solutions and identify their ability to meet personal and local community needs (VCDSTS010)

Technologies Contexts

  1. Explore and communicate the characteristics and properties of familiar designed solutions in at least two technologies contexts (VCDSTC011)

Creating Designed Solutions

  1. Explore and communicate how designed solutions are generated and produced to meet needs (VCDSCD012)

Level D Achievement Standard

By the end of Level D, students describe the purpose of familiar designed solutions and what needs they meet.

Students use designed solutions in at least two technologies contexts, identifying significant features.

With guidance, students create designed solutions evaluating their ideas based on personal preferences. They select materials based on some understanding of their properties and characteristics. They follow simple sequenced steps to create a designed solution and demonstrate safe use of tools and equipment.

Foundation to Level 2

Foundation to Level 2 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 of how society and environmental sustainability factors influence design and technologies decisions. They begin to consider the impact of their decisions and of technologies on others and the environment...

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Foundation to Level 2 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)

Foundation to Level 2 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.

Levels 3 and 4

Levels 3 and 4 Description

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 this through planning and awareness of the characteristics and properties of materials and the use...

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Levels 3 and 4 Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability, that impact on the design of solutions to meet community needs (VCDSTS023)

Technologies Contexts

Engineering principles and systems
  1. Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution (VCDSTC024)
Food and fibre production
  1. Investigate food and fibre production used in modern or traditional societies (VCDSTC025)
Food specialisations
  1. Investigate food preparation techniques used in modern or traditional societies (VCDSTC026)
Materials and technologies specialisations
  1. Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (VCDSTC027)

Creating Designed Solutions

Investigating
  1. Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to create designed solutions (VCDSCD028)
Generating
  1. Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (VCDSCD029)
Producing
  1. Select and use materials, components, tools and equipment using safe work practices to produce designed solutions (VCDSCD030)
Evaluating
  1. Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment and communities (VCDSCD031)
Planning and managing
  1. Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions (VCDSCD032)

Levels 3 and 4 Achievement Standard

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 for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.

Students create designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts. They explain needs or opportunities and evaluate ideas and designed solutions against identified criteria for success, including sustainability considerations. They develop and expand design ideas and communicate these using models and drawings including annotations and symbols. Students plan and sequence major steps in design and production. They identify appropriate technologies and techniques and demonstrate safe work practices when creating designed solutions.

Levels 5 and 6

Levels 5 and 6 Description

In Levels 5 and 6, students critically examine technologies that are used regularly in the home and in local, national, regional or global communities, with consideration of society, ethics and social and environmental sustainability factors. Students consider why and for whom technologies were developed.

Students engage with ideas beyond the familiar, exploring how design and technologies and...

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Levels 5 and 6 Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Investigate how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability, in the design of solutions for current and future use (VCDSTS033)

Technologies Contexts

Engineering principles and systems
  1. Investigate how forces or electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system (VCDSTC034)
Food and fibre production
  1. Investigate how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments (VCDSTC035)
Food specialisations
  1. Investigate the role of food preparation in maintaining good health and the importance of food safety and hygiene (VCDSTC036)
Materials and technologies specialisations
  1. Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment and evaluate the impact of their use (VCDSTC037)

Creating Designed Solutions

Investigating
  1. Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions (VCDSCD038)
Generating
  1. Generate, develop, communicate and document design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (VCDSCD039)
Producing
  1. Apply safe procedures when using a variety of materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions (VCDSCD040)
Evaluating
  1. Negotiate criteria for success that include consideration of environmental and social sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions (VCDSCD041)
Planning and managing
  1. Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions (VCDSCD042)

Levels 5 and 6 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 6 students describe some competing considerations in the design of solutions taking into account sustainability. They describe how design and technologies contribute to meeting present and future needs. Students explain how the features of technologies impact on designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.

Students create designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts, suitable for identified needs or opportunities. They suggest criteria for success, including sustainability considerations and use these to evaluate their ideas and designed solutions. They combine design ideas and communicate these to audiences using graphical representation techniques and technical terms. Students record project plans including production processes. They select and use appropriate technologies and techniques correctly and safely to produce designed solutions.

Levels 7 and 8

Levels 7 and 8 Description

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 and social sustainability factors. Students use creativity, innovation and enterprise skills...

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Levels 7 and 8 Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Examine and prioritise competing factors including social, ethical, economic and sustainability considerations in the development of technologies and designed solutions to meet community needs for preferred futures (VCDSTS043)
  2. Investigate the ways in which designed solutions evolve locally, nationally, regionally and globally through the creativity, innovation and enterprise of individuals and groups (VCDSTS044)

Technologies Contexts

Engineering principles and systems
  1. Analyse how motion, force and energy are used to manipulate and control electromechanical systems when creating simple, engineered solutions (VCDSTC045)
Food and fibre production
  1. Analyse how food and fibre are produced when creating managed environments and how these can become more sustainable (VCDSTC046)
Food specialisations
  1. Analyse how characteristics and properties of food determine preparation techniques and presentation when creating solutions for healthy eating (VCDSTC047)
Materials and technologies specialisations
  1. Analyse ways to create designed solutions through selecting and combining characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment (VCDSTC048)

Creating Designed Solutions

Investigating
  1. Critique needs or opportunities for designing and investigate, analyse and select from a range of materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to develop design ideas (VCDSCD049)
Generating
  1. Generate, develop and test design ideas, plans and processes using appropriate technical terms and technologies including graphical representation techniques (VCDSCD050)
Producing
  1. Effectively and safely use a broad range of materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions (VCDSCD051)
Evaluating
  1. Independently develop criteria for success to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions and their sustainability (VCDSCD052)
Planning and managing
  1. Use project management processes to coordinate production of designed solutions (VCDSCD053)

Levels 7 and 8 Achievement Standard

By the end of Level 8 students explain factors that influence the design of solutions to meet present and future needs. They explain the contribution of design and technology innovations and enterprise to society. Students explain how the features of technologies impact on designed solutions and influence design decisions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.

Students create designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts based on an evaluation of needs or opportunities. They develop criteria for success, including sustainability considerations, and use these to judge the suitability of their ideas and designed solutions and processes. They create and adapt design ideas, make considered decisions and communicate to different audiences using appropriate technical terms and a range of technologies and graphical representation techniques. Students apply project management skills to document and use project plans to manage production processes. They independently and safely produce effective designed solutions for the intended purpose.

Levels 9 and 10

Levels 9 and 10 Description

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 problem-solving activities that acknowledge the complexities of contemporary life and make connections...

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Levels 9 and 10 Content Descriptions

Technologies and Society

  1. Critically analyse factors, including social, ethical and sustainability considerations, that impact on designed solutions for global preferred futures and the complex design and production processes involved (VCDSTS054)
  2. Explain how designed solutions evolve with consideration of preferred futures and the impact of emerging technologies on design decisions (VCDSTS055)

Technologies Contexts

Engineering principles and systems
  1. Investigate and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to create engineered solutions (VCDSTC056)
Food and fibre production
  1. Investigate and make judgements on the ethical and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre (VCDSTC057)
Food specialisations
  1. Investigate and make judgements on how the principles of food safety, preservation, preparation, presentation and sensory perceptions influence the creation of food solutions for healthy eating (VCDSTC058)
Materials and technologies specialisations
  1. Investigate and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions (VCDSTC059)

Creating Designed Solutions

Investigating
  1. 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 (VCDSCD060)
Generating
  1. Apply design thinking, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills to develop, modify and communicate design ideas of increasing sophistication (VCDSCD061)
Producing
  1. Work flexibly to safely test, select, justify and use appropriate technologies and processes to make designed solutions (VCDSCD062)
Evaluating
  1. Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions against comprehensive criteria for success recognising the need for sustainability (VCDSCD063)
Planning and managing
  1. Develop project plans to plan and manage projects individually and collaboratively taking into consideration time, cost, risk and production processes (VCDSCD064)

Levels 9 and 10 Achievement Standard

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 have described. When creating designed solutions for identified needs or opportunities students evaluate the features of technologies and their appropriateness for purpose for one or more of the technologies contexts.

Students create designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts based on a critical evaluation of needs or opportunities. They establish detailed criteria for success, including sustainability considerations, and use these to evaluate their ideas and designed solutions and processes. They generate and connect design ideas and processes of increasing complexity and justify decisions. Students communicate and document projects, including marketing for a range of audiences. They independently and collaboratively apply sequenced production and management plans when producing designed solutions, making adjustments to plans when necessary. They select and use appropriate technologies skilfully and safely to produce quality designed solutions suitable for the intended purpose.

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