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Design & Technology Learning Assessment Plan

Subject:Yr.9ElectronicsTimeline: 1 SemesterTeacher: Mr. Magnusson

All students are expected to manage their time effectively to meet the due dates as directed or negotiated

with the teacher.

All students MUST comply with Safe Operating Procedures when using tools and equipment in the workshop.

Students create designed solutions for one or more of the technologies contexts based on a critical evaluation of needs or opportunities. They establish detailed criteria for success, including sustainability considerations, and use these to evaluate their ideas and designed solutions and processes. They create and connect design ideas and processes of increasing complexity and justify decisions. Students communicate and document projects, including marketing for a range of audiences. They independently and collaboratively apply sequenced production and management plans when producing designed solutions, making adjustments to plans when necessary. They select and use appropriate technologies skilfully and safely to produce high-quality designed solutions suitable for the intended purpose.

Assessment task / Assessment components / Scope & Sequence
Electronic Components and symbols
How a Transistor Oscillator circuit works
Soldering components to a PCB
MFA Control Technology
BreadboardingIntegrated Circuits 555
NOTE:All tasks are weighted equally /
  • Electricity production
  • Circuit wizard software
  • Ohms Law maths quiz
  • Soldering projects
  • 555 timer
  • Breadboarding
  • Logic gates
  • Integrated Circuits
/ Investigate and make judgments on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to create engineered solutions(ACTDEK043)
Investigate and make judgments on how the characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment can be combined to create designed solutions (ACTDEK046)
Investigate and make judgments, within a range of technologies specialisations, on how technologies can be combined to create designed solutions (ACTDEK047)
Critique needs or opportunities to develop design briefs and investigate and select an increasingly sophisticated range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment to develop design ideas (ACTDEP048)
Develop, modify and communicate design ideas by applying design thinking, creativity, innovation and enterprise skills of increasing sophistication (ACTDEP049)
Work flexibly to effectively and safely test, select, justify and use appropriate technologies and processes to make designed solutions (ACTDEP050)
Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions against comprehensive criteria for success recognising the need for sustainability (ACTDEP051)