AC9TDE10P03
Official content description
select, justify, test and use suitable technologies, skills and processes, and apply safety procedures to safely make designed solutions
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What Year 9 Technologies students should achieve
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- Students independently and collaboratively develop and apply production and project management plans, adjusting processes when necessary.
- By the end of Year 10 students develop and modify innovative digital solutions, decompose real-world problems, and critically evaluate alternative solutions against stakeholder elicited user stories.
- They design and validate algorithms and implement them, including in an object-oriented programming language.
- By the end of Year 10 students explain how people consider factors that impact on design decisions and the technologies used to design and produce products, services and environments for sustainable living.
- They use advanced features of digital tools to create interactive content, and to plan, collaborate on, and manage agile projects.
- Students create, adapt and refine design ideas, processes and solutions and justify their decisions against developed design criteria that include sustainability.
The Processes and production skills progression either side of AC9TDE10P03
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Taught before · Years 7–8
- AC9TDE8P01analyse needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate and select materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE8P02generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE8P03select, justify and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment, skills and processes to safely make designed solutions
Other Year 9 Processes and production skills codes
- AC9TDE10P01analyse needs or opportunities for designing; develop design briefs; and investigate, analyse and select materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE10P02apply innovation and enterprise skills to generate, test, iterate and communicate design ideas, processes and solutions, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE10P04develop design criteria independently including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
- AC9TDE10P05develop project plans for intended purposes and audiences to individually and collaboratively manage projects, taking into consideration time, cost, risk, processes and production of designed solutions
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