AC9TDE6P03
Official content description
select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
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What Year 5 Technologies students should achieve
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- They process data and show how digital systems represent data.
- By the end of Year 6 students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability.
- Students select and justify design ideas and solutions against design criteria that include sustainability.
- For each of the 3 prescribed technologies contexts they explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions and they create designed solutions.
- Students select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to plan, create, locate and share content, and to collaborate, applying agreed conventions and behaviours.
- Students develop project plans, including production processes, and select technologies and techniques to safely produce designed solutions.
The Processes and production skills progression either side of AC9TDE6P03
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Taught before · Years 3–4
- AC9TDE4P01explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
- AC9TDE4P02generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
- AC9TDE4P03select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
Builds towards · 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 5 Processes and production skills codes
- 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
- AC9TDE6P04negotiate design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions
- AC9TDE6P05develop project plans that include consideration of resources to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions
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