Junior Tech

7 Textiles

Semester 2 Outcomes

  • By the end of Year 8, students explain factors that influence the design of products, services and environments 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.

Week 7

Activities



Resources

Copy of Traditional Textiles

Assessment

7 Food

Semester 2 Outcomes

  • By the end of Year 8, students explain factors that influence the design of products, services and environments 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.

Week 7

Activities

Muffin design Challenge – Packaging Part 1



Resources


Copy of Muffin Design challenge - packaging part 1

Assessment

Week 8

Activities

Muffin design Challenge – Packaging Part 2

Resources


Copy of Muffin Design challenge - 2

Assessment


Copy of Year 7 Muffin Challenge

8 Wood

Semester 2 Outcomes

  • By the end of Year 8, students explain factors that influence the design of products, services and environments 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.

Week 7/8

Activities


Pencil Box Steps of Construction


Resources


Copy of [Template] wooden pencil box
Copy of Example wooden pencil box

Assessment

Copy of Pencil Box Rubric for online learning

Week 9

Activities

Advertising

Resources


Copy of Advertising - Wooden pencil box

Assessment

Week 10

Activities

Design Challenge- Float your Boat

Resources

Copy of Float your boat

Assessment

8 Digital Technologies

Term 3 Outcomes

  • Students plan and manage digital projects to create interactive information.

  • Students design user experiences and algorithms incorporating branching and iterations, and test, modify and implement digital solutions.

  • They evaluate information systems and their solutions in terms of meeting needs, innovation and sustainability.

  • They analyse and evaluate data from a range of sources to model and create solutions.

Activities

Khan Academy - HTML/CSS

Assessment

Built into Khan Academy