Year 10 Guidelines: Technology Ways of working Students are able to: investigate and analyse products, processes or services in response to design challenges or problems design solutions to challenges or problems, considering appropriateness, purpose and constraints, including budgets and timelines develop and use production plans to manage and refine procedures, using suitable techniques and tools, to make quality-controlled products, processes or services use safe and ethical practices relevant to specific contexts create products, processes or services to meet challenges or problems by manipulating or processing resources (information, materials and systems) communicate design solutions in response to challenges or problems using suitable modes and genres for presenting technical ideas and design concepts for a given audience and purpose use evaluation throughout the design and production process to validate and refine the effectiveness of solutions to challenges or problems analyse and evaluate the ethics and impacts of products, processes and services on local and global communities and environments reflect on learning, applying new understandings of technological processes to contexts. Knowledge and understanding Year 10 Guidelines: Technology Examples Products, processes Information takes Examples may include: and services different forms that different sources of information can be collected, Individual characteristics that are used to and develop design analysed and of different technological challenges, e.g. design briefs, references organised. resources (information, issues related to ownership and materials or systems) will control of information in society, e.g. decide how they are copyright, intellectual property, patents applied in products, presentation of information to processes or services meet detailed specifications that have been designed client needs that are used to to meet a challenge. develop the design solutions. Materials have Examples may include: characteristics nature of industrial materials, e.g. current are compared, trends in material development and use, contrasted and potential uses of current materials, natural and selected to meet synthetic materials detailed specifications characteristics of materials, e.g. chemical and and production physical characteristics of materials, standards. relationship of characteristics to performance, testing of materials to determine characteristics, composites, heat treatment as a result of cutting and joining processes,
Year 10 Guidelines: Technology Ways of working Students are able to: investigate and analyse products, processes or services in response to design challenges or problems design solutions to challenges or problems, considering appropriateness, purpose and constraints, including budgets and timelines develop and use production plans to manage and refine procedures, using suitable techniques and tools, to make quality-controlled products, processes or services use safe and ethical practices relevant to specific contexts create products, processes or services to meet challenges or problems by manipulating or processing resources (information, materials and systems) communicate design solutions in response to challenges or problems using suitable modes and genres for presenting technical ideas and design concepts for a given audience and purpose use evaluation throughout the design and production process to validate and refine the effectiveness of solutions to challenges or problems analyse and evaluate the ethics and impacts of products, processes and services on local and global communities and environments reflect on learning, applying new understandings of technological processes to contexts. Knowledge and understanding Year 10 Guidelines: Technology Examples Products, processes and services Individual characteristics of different technological resources (information, materials or systems) will decide how they are applied in products, processes or services that have been designed to meet a challenge. Information takes different forms that can be collected, analysed and organised. Examples may include: different sources of information that are used to and develop design challenges, e.g. design briefs, references issues related to ownership and control of information in society, e.g. copyright, intellectual property, patents presentation of information to meet detailed specifications client needs that are used to develop the design solutions. Materials have characteristics are compared, contrasted and selected to meet detailed specifications and production standards. Examples may include: nature of industrial materials, e.g. current trends in material development and use, potential uses of current materials, natural and synthetic materials characteristics of materials, e.g. chemical and physical characteristics of materials, relationship of characteristics to performance, testing of materials to determine characteristics, composites, heat treatment as a result of cutting and joining processes,