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WS01 - Design project: Desktop lamp

Technologies, Design and Technologies, Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures. For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts students explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities. They acquire, interpret and model with spreadsheets and represent data with integers and binary. Students design and trace algorithms; and implement them in a general-purpose programming language. Students create and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools. They select appropriate hardware for particular tasks, explain how data is transmitted and secured in networks, and identify cyber security threats. They use a range of digital tools to individually and collaboratively document and manage production processes to safely and responsibly produce designed or digital solutions for the intended purpose. Students manage their digital footprint.

By the end of Year 8 students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures. For each of the 4 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities. Students create and adapt design ideas, processes and solutions, and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability. They communicate design ideas and solutions to audiences using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools. They independently and collaboratively document and manage production processes to safely produce designed solutions. 

Knowledge and understanding | Technologies and society

AC9TDE8K01

analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical and sustainability factors to design and produce products, services and environments

Knowledge and understanding | Technologies and society

AC9TDE8K02

analyse the impact of innovation and the development of technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures

Processes and production skills | Generating and designing

AC9TDE8P02

generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools

Processes and production skills | Evaluating

AC9TDE8P04

develop design criteria collaboratively including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions

 

Annotations

 

1. Uses images to illustrate the development of lighting design over a period of time. 

 

2. Identifies the designers of existing lighting solutions. 

 

3. Describes the aesthetics of the product that distinguish it from other designs.  

4. Researches the importance of energy efficiency in lighting designs.

5. Identifies the functional requirements of the solution to be designed. 

 

6. Explains the importance of the functional requirements.  

 

7. Explains how each requirement will be evaluated.   

8. Labels sketches with appropriate terminology to indicate the materials and components to be used. 

9. Refines the design ideas, using sketches and annotations. 

10. Draws a scaled orthogonal drawing (side and front view) of the designed solution (product).

11. Uses CAD software to design a scaled 3D model of the final product.