Unit 1: Designing a Puzzle Game
Duration
Weeks: 18
Key Concept
Development
Related Concepts
Form, Ergonomics
Global Context
Identities and Relationships (Competition & Cooperation)
Statement of Inquiry
Designers consider and use form while developing a game to build healthy competition and cooperation.
Summative Assessment Criteria
Criterion A, B, C, D
Approaches to Learning (ATLs) Skills
- R: Make connections between various sources of information
- C: Use a variety of media to communicate with a range of audiences
- SM: Plan short and long-term assignments; meet deadlines
- T: Draw reasonable conclusions and generalizations
Curriculum Standards
- By the end of Year 6, students describe some competing considerations in the design of products, services, and environments taking into account sustainability.
- Students describe how design and technologies contribute to meeting present and future needs.
- Students explain how the features of technologies impact on designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts.
- Students create designed solutions for each of the prescribed technologies contexts suitable for identified needs or opportunities.
- Students suggest criteria for success, including sustainability considerations, and use these to evaluate their ideas and designed solutions.
- Students combine design ideas and communicate these to audiences using graphical representation techniques and technical terms.
- Students record project plans including production processes.
- Students select and use appropriate technologies and techniques correctly and safely to produce designed solutions.
Unit 2: Designing Personal Brand Identity
Duration
Weeks: 8
Key Concept
Communication
Related Concepts
Adaptations, Markets & Trends
Global Context
Personal and Cultural Expression (Philosophies and ways of life)
Statement of Inquiry
Branding should adapt to the market trends and communicate the philosophies of the organization.
Summative Assessment Criteria
Criterion A, C
Approaches to Learning (ATLs) Skills
- R: Seek a range of perspectives from multiple and varied sources
- SM: Develop new skills, techniques, and strategies for effective learning
Curriculum Standards
- Investigate how electrical energy can control movement, sound, or light in a designed product or system (ACTDEK020)
- Investigate how and why food and fiber are produced in managed environments and prepared to enable people to grow and be healthy (ACTDEK021)
- Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools, and equipment, and evaluate the impact of their use (ACTDEK023)
- Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment, and processes to achieve intended designed solutions (ACTDEP024)
- Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment, and techniques, and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions (ACTDEP026)
- Develop project plans that include consideration of resources when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively (ACTDEP028)
Unit 3: Designing for Sustainability
Duration
Weeks: 10
Key Concept
Systems
Related Concepts
Sustainability and Perspectives
Global Context
Globalization and Sustainability (Human Impact on the Environment)
Statement of Inquiry
Understanding systems and perspectives can help create sustainable solutions.**
Summative Assessment Criteria
Criterion B, D
Approaches to Learning (ATLs) Skills
- C: Interpret and use effectively modes of non-verbal communication
- R: Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on their appropriateness to specific tasks
Curriculum Standards
- Examine how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services, and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019)
- Generate, develop, communicate, and document design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques (ACTDEP025)
- Negotiate criteria for success that include consideration of sustainability to evaluate design ideas, processes, and solutions (ACTDEP027)