Year 10 Design Technology - Half Year

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. 

Previous Student results in Industrial Design or other Technology Courses will be factored in when looking at course entry for year 11 technology courses this is to ensure students are capable of experiencing some level of success for the NCEA credits on offer. For students that have not taken the course prior previous related subjects will be used as a guide. Generally, students will be successful in the year 9 and 10 courses if they complete their project work.