TECHNOLOGY

This semester our focus in Design and Technology is on electricity, forces and gravity.  

Design and Technology: Hey there, Sparky

Learning Intentions 

Students will:

• demonstrate an understanding of how electricity can control movement.
• understand closed and open circuits in the context of engineering a battery powered device.
• understand the characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools, and equipment can be evaluated according to the impact of their use.
• identify and describe competing considerations in the design of battery powered products.
• describe how design and technologies, particularly engineering, contribute to meeting present and future needs.

Design and Technology: Dancing on the Ceiling: an engineering ‘feet’ 

Learning Intentions 

Students will:

• understand that forces control movement in a system, by understanding the impact that the force of gravity has on how we live life on Earth

• describe how forces (gravity) and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system

• identify how animals are experienced engineers with developed biological systems of movement

• identify how engineers have incorporated structures and methods from the living world into products and solutions in the human-made world

• understand the impact gravity has on how we live life on Earth, and how this changes with space travel

• understand the ways that suitability of materials influences design choices and solutions

• understand that our human desire to demarcate directions, such as up and down, impacts how spaces are defined and designed on Earth and in space.