Design & Technology
subject overview
Design and Technology is both a practical and academic subject. It provides our young people with the opportunity to actively respond to class based projects with creativity and rationality. Design and Technology teaches our children how to make important design decisions and how to become more resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable. Our learners also develop a critical understanding of the impact of design and technology in daily life and the wider world. Design and Technology delivers excellent opportunities for our learners to develop and apply judgements in relation to; aesthetics, economic, moral, social, and of a technological nature in both their own designing and when evaluating the work of others.ion content
unit overview - Designing through sketching and modelling
Subject: Designing through sketching and modelling |
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Skills |
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Rationale |
Learners will be able to initiate and create design concepts that are functional and suitable to a focus market.
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unit overview - Innovation through iterative design
Subject: Innovation through iterative design |
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This unit allows learners analyse critically, design challenges in products and prototypes. Come up with solutions that are adaptable and user friendly. Will have an appreciation of how the design of new products becomes actual in the real world. The unit provides the freedom of a truly iterative approach to designing enabling innovation and inspiration to flow free. There is enough scaffolding and various ways of generating new ideas rather than following the rigid structure of the linear approach to designing. Various strategies are used which focus on the design process with inspiring outcomes, where design fixation is avoided. This enables learners design and model in a way that suits them best. |
knowledge organisers
A knowledge organiser is an important document that lists the important facts that learners should know by the end of a unit of work. It is important that learners can recall these facts easily, so that when they are answering challenging questions in their assessments and GCSE and A-Level exams, they are not wasting precious time in exams focusing on remembering simple facts, but making complex arguments, and calculations.
We encourage all pupils to use them by doing the following:
- Quiz themselves at home, using the read, write, cover, check method.
- Practise spelling key vocabulary
- Further researching people, events and processes most relevant to the unit.