AC9TDE4P02
Official content description
generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
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What Year 3 Technologies students should achieve
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- Students select design ideas against design criteria.
- For each of the 2 prescribed technologies contexts they describe the features and uses of technologies and create designed solutions.
- By the end of Year 4 students create simple digital solutions and use provided design criteria to check if solutions meet user needs.
- By the end of Year 4 students describe how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of people, including sustainability.
- They communicate design ideas using models and drawings including annotations and symbols.
- They use the core features of common digital tools to plan, create, locate and share content, and to collaborate, following agreed behaviours.
The Processes and production skills progression either side of AC9TDE4P02
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Taught before · Years 1–2
- AC9TDE2P01generate and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing or modelling, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE2P02use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
- AC9TDE2P03evaluate the success of design ideas and solutions based on personal preferences and including sustainability
Builds towards · Years 5–6
- AC9TDE6P01investigate needs or opportunities for designing, and the materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE6P02generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE6P03select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
Other Year 3 Processes and production skills codes
- AC9TDE4P01explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE4P03select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
- AC9TDE4P04use given or co-developed design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas and solutions
- AC9TDE4P05sequence steps to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions
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