Design project: Gardening tool
Summary of task
Students critiqued garden tools, designed for adults, and identified the issues they have with using them. They researched ergonomics and developments by designers of garden tools in shape, size and materials used. Students explained the issues they have with their selected tool(s) and produced designed solutions to address their garden tool critique. They presented their critiques and designed solutions to the class by means of an oral and a visual presentation. Students documented the design and development process.
The focus of this task was to design and produce a product for the technologies context materials and technologies specialisations.
Achievement standard
By the end of Year 6, students describe competing considerations in the design of products, services and environments, taking into account sustainability. They 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. They suggest criteria for success, including sustainability considerations, and use these to evaluate their ideas and designed solutions. They combine design ideas and communicate these to audiences using graphical representation techniques and technical terms. Students record project plans including production processes. They select and use appropriate technologies and techniques correctly and safely to produce designed solutions.
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Identifies problems with existing product -
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Suggests design ideas to resolve identified problems
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Communicates a design idea in a persuasive poster with product drawing
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Identifies problems users face using a range of tools -
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Communicates information about tools
