Product Design and Technology

Product Design and Technology provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary for producing quality products that effectively solve a problem or meet a need. Within a collaborative context, building an understanding of the role product design plays in the world, students will consider the effects of specific technologies or processes have on society and the environment.

Product design education develops student skills in creating and communicating ideas, and in solving complex and varied problems.

Students are provided opportunities to develop and enhance their experiences of the product design process by exploring the four phases of investigating, designing, producing and evaluating. Projects will enable students to learn new practical skills, knowledge and experience.

Course Content

Investigating and Designing

• Produce ethically and sustainably designed solutions relevant to individual, regional and global current issues.

• Understand processes, production skills, and design thinking.

• Recognise the need for sustainable design.

Design Development

• Use a range of technologies to communicate ideas and technical information.

• Represent original ideas and production plans in 2D and 3D.

Fabrication, Recording and Evaluating

ASSESSMENT

• Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions against evaluation criteria.

• Visual diary (designing and development).

• Final product.

• Evaluation.