Official documents

• QCAA Curriculum Resources for Design and Technologies 7-10

• Australian Curriculum for Design and Technologies 7 - 10

Examples of what schools are doing

• Year 7 

  • Textiles: Tie Dye T-shirts

• Year 8 

  • Food: Fakeaway Flip

• Year 9

  • Design to set criteria – Divergent thinking strategies to stimulate  creative ideas for redesigning products. Manufacturing the product with a design folio (materials). Product focus is a C02 Dragster. 

  • Technology basic – Low voltage electrical unit 

  • Design with Empathy – How designers work collaboratively to develop outcomes for a client's needs and wants

  • Food: Food Trends (either 10 weeks or 20 weeks)

  • Textiles: Tie Dye Bucket Hats

• Year 10 

  • Textiles: Hooded Up - design and produce a hoodie