Elective subjects
- Digital Technologies
- Food Specialisation
- Materials and Technologies Specialisation
By the end of Year 10 students will have had the opportunity to design and produce at least four designed solutions for each of the following: Food specialisations (Home Economics) and Materials and technologies specialisations (Industrial Technology Design) and Digital Technologies. Students have opportunities to experience creating designed solutions for products, services and environments.
In Year 9 and 10 students use design and technologies knowledge and understanding, processes and production skills and design thinking to produce designed solutions to identified needs or opportunities of relevance to individuals and regional and global communities. Students use creativity, innovation and enterprise skills with increasing confidence, independence and collaboration.
Student use a range of technologies including a variety of graphical and digital representations to communicate. Students identify the steps involved in planning the production of designed solutions. They develop detailed project management plans incorporating elements such as sequenced time, cost and action plans to manage a range of design tasks safely. They apply management plans, changing direction when necessary, to successfully complete design tasks. Students identify and establish safety procedures that minimise risk and manage projects with safety and efficiency in mind, maintaining safety standards and management procedures to ensure success. They learn to transfer theoretical knowledge to practical activities across a range of projects.
ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Students are assessed on two strands of criteria: KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING, and PROCESSES and PRODUCTION SKILLS.
Units of work include practical and written portfolios. Students are expected to participate in both components of assessment.
Additional:
- Students must wear Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) when engaging in practical lessons (Home Economics and Industrial Technology and Design) – supplied by the school.
- Failure to work safely in practical areas can result in removal from the subject.
Digital Technologies
Learning in Digital Technologies focuses on further developing understanding and skills in computational thinking such as precisely and accurately describing problems and the use of modular approaches to solutions. It also focuses on engaging students with specialised learning in preparation for vocational training or learning in the senior secondary years.
In Year 9 and 10, students consider how human interaction with networked systems introduces complexities surrounding access to, and the security and privacy of, data of various types. They interrogate security practices and techniques used to compress data, and learn about the importance of separating content, presentation and behavioural elements for data integrity and maintenance purposes.
Students explore how bias can impact the results and value of data collection methods and they use structured data to analyse, visualise, model and evaluate objects and events. They learn how to develop multilevel abstractions, identify standard elements such as searching and sorting in algorithms, and explore the trade-offs between the simplicity of a model and the faithfulness of its representation.
Contexts and projects that students may engage with (but are not limited to) throughout the course of study:
- Interpreting and presenting data in digital systems
- Software creations and understanding the associated hardware
- Developing websites
- Game design
- Robotics
- Arduino and coding sensors
Food Specialisation
Throughout year 9 and 10, students will research, design, create and evaluate products based around the hospitality industry. This does not only involve cooking, but the design of menus and packaging, marketing, adapting to different clientele and evaluating products created. Students will need to plan their practical cooks based on a criteria for success, and consider budgeting and quantity of ingredients.
Students will achieve this through a range of contexts relevant to the industry
Contexts and projects that students may engage with (but are not limited to) throughout the course of study:
- Food preservation techniques and benefits
- Menus and products for school canteens
- Food truck challenges
- The use and effect of social media within the hospitality industry
- Food aid and support programs
- High tea and catering
- Specific cultural cuisines
- Developing sustainable solutions
Materials and Technology Specialisation
Throughout year 9 and 10, students will research, design, create and evaluate products based around industrial technologies. This incorporates a range of industries ranging from graphics, design, engineering and woodwork. Students are expected to research potential designed solutions bas on specific criteria, plan and design accordingly, prototype, construct and evaluate a project. Students will use a wide range of technologies to achieve this, including 2D sketching, computer aided drafting (CAD), 3D printing, 3D computer designs (inventor and Revit), and the woodworking workshops.
Whilst this subject will include woodworking projects, this will not be the focus for every unit of work, and students are expected to engage with all contextualised units.
Before students are able to complete woodworking projects, they must complete all relevant safety inductions.
Contexts and projects that students may engage with (but are not limited to) throughout the course of study:
- Soldering speakers and lights and creating their housing units
- Basic furniture making
- Prototyping engineering based principals such as a hydraulic arm
- Comparing changes and effects of emerging technologies such as 3D printing
- Designing plans for residential buildings to scale, and developing digital and physical models
- Investigate aeronautic principals through engineering prototypes