| Sub-strands |
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Investigating |
Devising |
Producing |
Evaluating |
L e v e l1 |
TP 1.1 Investigates the form and identifies the uses of everyday products. |
TP 1.2 Generates ideas for own designs, using trial and error, simple models and drawings. |
TP 1.3 Undertakes simple production
processes with care and safety. |
TP 1.4 Describes feelings about own design ideas, products and processes. |
L e v e l2 |
TP 2.1 Investigates and identifies the uses and effects of products, systems, processes, services and environments. |
TP 2.2 Generates designs and recognises some practical constraints using text, drawings or models and, where necessary, introducing some technical terms. |
TP 2.3 Plans production processes and makes products, systems, processes, services and environments using resources safely. |
TP 2.4 Compares own products, systems, processes, services and environments with original intentions. |
L e v e l3 |
TP 3.1 Examines and identifies key design features, including aesthetic features, and environmental effects of products, systems, processes, services and environments. |
TP 3.2 Generates designs that take into account some social and environmental implications and communicates using a range of graphical representations, models and technical terms. |
TP 3.3 Plans and carries out the steps of production processes, making safe and efficient use of resources. |
TP 3.4 Assesses how well the ideas, products, systems, processes, services and environments used meet design requirements, including consideration of functional and aesthetic criteria. |
L e v e l4 |
TP 4.1 Determines the appropriateness of technologies for communities and environments. |
TP 4.2 Creates and prepares design proposals that include options considered and reasons for choices made, and uses images to visualise ideas and work out how designs might be realised. |
TP 4.3 Organises and implements production processes to own specifications, recognising hazards and adopting safe work practices. |
TP 4.4 Assesses the effectiveness of own designs, products, systems, processes, services and environments in relation to design requirements, including consideration of social and environmental criteria. |
L e v e l5 |
TP 5.1 Investigates and explains how the design, production and use of technologies are affected by the needs of communities and environments. |
TP 5.2 Creates and prepares design and production proposals that include an examination of a range of options; demonstrates consideration of functional, aesthetic, social and environmental issues; and communicates using graphics and technical languages associated with particular fields of technology. |
TP 5.3 Organises, implements and adjusts production processes based on detailed production plans, which are described using suitable technical languages and conventions and which achieve defined standards of quality and safety. |
TP 5.4 Assesses own products, systems, processes, services and environments according to specified design requirements, including ethical criteria and comparisons with similar technologies. |