Year 10 Design Technology - Half Year
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr D. Greenwood.
This course continues from Year 9 Workshop Design or Year 9 Industrial Design. The focus of this course is about designing and making projects for user or client needs and possibilities.
Skills:
Researching existing solutions and related products
Brief investigation to know the possibilities of a project and the technical limitations
Client statements to know client requirements
Design planning for possible construction techniques (lap joints, box joint, mitered and more)
Materials testing of prototypes and construction techniques to create a refined final project
Personal reflections and evaluations with the use of I.C.T. throughout the course
Develop safe working practices within a workshop environment
Projects:
Various smaller scale projects depending on the classes personal interest and a major project of a working “Wireless Speaker Box”
This course will develop students' higher level thinking skills to enable them to access the required higher thinking and evaluation that will then enable them to take on the Design Technology course in Year 11.